Job 17:5
Strong's Lexicon
If a man denounces
יַגִּ֣יד (yag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5046: 1) to be conspicuous, tell, make known 1a) (Hiphil) to tell, declare 1a1) to tell, announce, report 1a2) to declare, make known, expound 1a3) to inform of 1a4) to publish, declare, proclaim 1a5) to avow, acknowledge, confess 1a5a) messenger (participle) 1b) (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported

his friends
רֵעִ֑ים (rê·‘îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7453: 1) friend, companion, fellow, another person 1a) friend, intimate 1b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense) 1c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)

for a price,
לְ֭חֵלֶק (lə·ḥê·leq)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2506: 1) portion, share, part, territory 1a) portion, share 1b) portion, tract, parcel (of land) 1c) one's portion, one's possession 1d) (chosen) portion 1e) portion, award (from God) 2) smoothness, seductiveness, flattery

the eyes
וְעֵינֵ֖י (wə·‘ê·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc
Strong's Hebrew 5869: 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.) 2) spring, fountain

of his children
בָנָ֣יו (ḇā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group 1a) son, male child 1b) grandson 1c) children (pl. - male and female) 1d) youth, young men (pl.) 1e) young (of animals) 1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels] 1g) people (of a nation) (pl.) 1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.) 1i) a member of a guild, order, class

will fail.
תִּכְלֶֽנָה׃ (tiḵ·le·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3615: 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

Young's Literal Translation
For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man informs on his friends for  a price, the eyes of his  children will fail.

New American Standard Bible
"He who informs against friends for a share [of the spoil], The eyes of his children also will languish.

King James Bible
He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.

New Living Translation
They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

English Standard Version
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.

New American Standard Bible
"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.

King James Bible
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man informs on his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

International Standard Version
Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.

NET Bible
If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

American Standard Version
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

English Revised Version
He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Young's Literal Translation
For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
















Cross References
Leviticus 19:13
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 17:3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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