Bible verse
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
Job 17:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 17.
1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
2 Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
4 You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
KJV
He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
ASV
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
ERV
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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