Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattery unto man.

For I know not how to give flattery; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.

A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father’s sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.