Job 32:22
20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
- KJV
- For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
- WEB
- For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.
- ASV
- For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my Maker soon take me away.
- DARBY
- For I know not how to flatter; my Maker would soon take me away.
- BLB
- For I do not know how to give a title; soon my Maker would take me away.
- ÅB
- for jeg forstår ikke å smigre; ellers kunne min skaper lett rykke meg bort.
[^1]: 1MO 22, 21. - OTB
- For jeg vet ikke hvordan jeg skal smigre;
hvis jeg gjorde det, ville min Skaper raskt ta meg bort. - B1930
- for jeg forstår ikke å smigre; ellers kunde min skaper lett rykke mig bort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 12:2–3
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Read in contextProverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Read in contextJob 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Read in contextGalatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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