Ayub 17:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Barangsiapa mengadukan sahabatnya untuk mencari keuntungan, mata anak-anaknya akan menjadi rabun.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Barangsiapa mengadukan sahabatnya untuk mencari keuntungan, mata anak-anaknya akan menjadi rabun.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Barangsiapa yang menipu sahabatnya, maka mata anak-anaknyapun akan jadi kabur.

Contextual Overview

¹ My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore. ² Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them. ³ O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me? ⁴ For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set [them] vp on hie. ⁵ He that speaketh flatterie to his friend, the eyes of his children shall fayle. ⁶ He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy. ⁷ Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe. ⁸ Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite. ⁹ The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that: Job 32:21, Job 32:22, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 12:3, Proverbs 20:19, Proverbs 29:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:5

the eyes: Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy 28:65, 1 Kings 11:12, Lamentations 4:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:32 - fail Job 13:7 - General Proverbs 19:22 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
And I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, and wyll multiplie thee exceedyngly.

Genesis 17:4
It is I, behold my couenaut [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:15
And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sara [shall] her name be.

Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.

Genesis 17:23
Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.

Genesis 32:28
He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled.

Numbers 13:16
These are the names of the men which Moyses sent to spie out the land: And Moyses called the name of Osea the sonne of Nun, Iosuah.

2 Samuel 12:25
And had sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidia, of the Lordes behalfe.

Nehemiah 9:7
Thou art, O Lorde, the God that hast chosen Abraham, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and calledst him Abraham:

Isaiah 65:15
Your name shall ye leaue accursed among my chosen: for God the Lorde shall slay you, and call his seruauntes by another name.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends,.... As Job's friends did to him when they promised great outward prosperity, and a restoration to his former state, and to a greater affluence upon his repentance and reformation; or when they spoke deceitfully for God, pretending great regard to the honour of his justice and holiness, and therefore insisted on it that he must be a wicked man and an hypocrite, that was afflicted by him, as Job was:

even the eyes of his children shall fail; so hateful are some sins to God, and particularly deceitful tongues, and flattering lips, that he will punish them in their posterity; the eyes of their children shall fail for want of sustenance, and while they are looking in vain for salvation and deliverance out of trouble, see Exodus 20:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that speaketh flattery to his friends - Noyes renders this, “He that delivers up his friend as a prey, the eyes of his children shall fail.” So Wemyss, “He who delivers up his friends to plunder.” Dr. Good, “He that rebuketh his friends with mildness, even the eyes of his children shall be accomplished.” The Septuagint, “He announces evil for his portion; his eyes fail over his sons.” The Vulgate, “He promises spoil to his companions, and the eyes of his sons fail.” The word rendered “flattery” (חלק chêleq) properly means “that which is smooth, smoothness” (from חלק châlaq to be smooth); and thence it denotes “a lot” or “portion,” because “a smooth stone” was anciently used to cast lots in dividing spoils; Deuteronomy 18:8. Here it is synonymous with plunder or spoil; and the idea is, that he who betrayeth his friends to the spoil or to the spoiler, the eyes of his children shall fail. The meaning in this connection is, that the friends of Job had acted as one would who should announce the residence of his neighbors to robbers, that they might come and plunder them. Instead of defending him, they had acted the part of a traitor. Schultens says that this verse is “a Gordian knot;” and most commentators regard it as such; but the above seems to give a clear and consistent meaning. It is evidently a proverb, and is designed to bear on the professed friends of Job, and to show that they had acted a fraudulent part toward him. In Job 17:4, he had said that God had hid their heart from understanding, and that wisdom had failed them. He “here” says that in addition to a want of wisdom, they were like a man who should betray his neighbors to robbers.

Even the eyes of his children shall fail - He shall be punished. To do this is a crime, and great calamity shall come upon him, represented by the failure of the eyes of his children. Calamity is not unfrequently expressed by the loss of the eyes; see Proverbs 30:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:5. He that speaketh flattery — There is a great variety of meaning given to the terms in this verse. The general sense is, The man who expects much from his friends will be disappointed: while depending on them his children's eyes may fail in looking for bread.