New Revised Standard Version
For I do not know how to flatter— or my Maker would soon put an end to me!

Contemporary English Version
if I did, my Creator would quickly destroy me!

New American Bible
For I know nothing of flattery; if I did, my Maker would soon take me away.

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

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.