For thou hast hid their heart from [a]understanding: therefore shalt thou not set them up on high.

[b]For the eyes of his children shall fail, that speaketh flattery to his friends.

He hath also made me a [c]byword of the people, and I am as a tabret [d]before them.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:4 That these mine afflictions are thy just judgments, though man know not the cause.
  2. Job 17:5 He that flattereth a man, and only judgeth him happy in his prosperity, shall not himself only but in his posterity be punished.
  3. Job 17:6 God hath made all the world to speak of me, because of mine afflictions.
  4. Job 17:6 That is, as a continual sound in their ears.

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