He who speaks flattery to his friends - Noyes renders this, “He that delivers up his friend as a prey, the eyes of his children…

He that speaketh flattery to his friends. —The three words rendered this way are, due to their extreme brevity, very obsc…

He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends
As Job's friends did to him when they promised great outward prosperity, …

Job reflects on the harsh censures his friends had pa ed on him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending; it …

Job had previously shown the great number of his afflictions (Job 16:14), the humiliation of his mind (Job 16:16), his inno…