John Trapp on Job 17:5

Verſe 5. He that ſpeaketh flattery to his friends.] As you my friends do to, and for God, in ſeeming to aſſert his juſtice in puniſhing me for my wickedneſſe, ſo ſoothing and ſmoothing up the Almighty (quod ipſum nibil aliud eſt quam falſo Deo blaudiri, ſaith Merlin) and ſeeking to make the world believe by your great words, that you are his great Champions, whilſt you go about to cleare up his righteouſneſſe, by concluding me unrighteous, See chap. 13.7, 8. with the Notes.

The eyes of his children ſhall fail.] Not himſelf only ſhall ſmart (while the Lord curteth off flattering lips, and the deceitful tongue, Pſal. 12.3.) but his poor children ſhall rue for it. They ſhall lye languiſhing at Hopes Hoſpital, and after all be diſappointed, or their eyes ſhall fail with long looking after good, but nothing comes. They ſhall look for peace, and there is no good; and for a time of healing, but behold trouble, Jer. 14.19. God will deſtroy flatterers, head and tail, branch and ruſh, like as the Theſſalians, once utterly deſtroyed the City called,Hen. Steph. Apol. pro Herod. [non-Latin text not transcribed] or Flattery.