Job 32:22
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For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

Job 4:17
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 32:21
I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

Job 33:1
Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

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For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

I know not.

Job 17:5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

Psalm 12:2,3 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. . . .

Proverbs 29:5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man. 22For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.
Lexicon
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

know how
יָדַ֣עְתִּי (yā·ḏa‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

to flatter,
אֲכַנֶּ֑ה (’ă·ḵan·neh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3655: To address by an additional name, to eulogize

or my Maker
עֹשֵֽׂנִי׃ (‘ō·śê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

would remove me
יִשָּׂאֵ֥נִי (yiś·śā·’ê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

in an instant.
כִּ֝מְעַ֗ט (kim·‘aṭ)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4592: A little, fewness, a few


Additional Translations
For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

For I know not to give flattering titles; Else would my Maker soon take me away.

For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

For I know not how to flatter; my Maker would soon take me away.

For I know not to give flattering titles; else would my Maker soon take me away.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing, my Maker would soon take me away.

For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.
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