⁵ For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

²⁰ And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope `is' a breathing out of soul!

⁵ for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

¹⁷ While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.

⁵ A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

¹⁹ A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles,

²² For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

¹² `Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

⁶⁵ `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,