English Standard Version
Job 15:5
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- New International Version (NIV)Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
Context of Job 15:5
3Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? 4But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. 7"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֹנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:5
- Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Luke 6:45The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
- James 1:26If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
- Psalms 50:19"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
- Psalms 64:3who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
- Psalms 120:2Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 9:3They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
- James 3:5So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
Commentaries on Job 15:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5For thy mouth uttereth - In attempting to justify thyself, thou hast added iniquity to sin, and hast endeavored to impute blame to thy Maker. The tongue of the crafty - Thou hast varnished thy own conduct, and used sophistical arguments to defend thyself. Thou resemblest those cunning persons, ערומים arumim, who derive their skill and dexterity from the old serpent, "the nachash, who was ערום arum, subtle, or crafty, beyond all the beasts of the field;"…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity - Margin, “teacheth.” That is, “your whole argument shows that you are a guilty man. A man who can defend such positions about God cannot be a pious man, or have any proper veneration for the Most High.” A man may pursue an argument, and defend positions, that shall as certainly show that he is destitute of religion as though he lived an abandoned life; and he who holds opinions that are dishonorable to God, can no…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. The sophistry of thine own speeches proves thy guilt.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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