God’s Word Translation
Job 15:5
5Your sin teaches you what to say. You choose ⌞to talk with⌟ a sly tongue.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Context of Job 15:5
3Should he argue with words that don’t help, with speeches that don’t help ⌞anyone⌟? 4Yes, you destroy the fear ⌞of God⌟ and diminish devotion to God. Your sin teaches you what to say. You choose ⌞to talk with⌟ a sly tongue. 6Your ⌞own⌟ mouth condemns you, not I. Your lips testify against you. 7“Were you the first human to be born? Were you delivered before the hills ⌞existed⌟?
Read all of Job 15Job 15:5 word by word
כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֹנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:5
- Job 9:22It is all the same. That is why I say, ‘He destroys ⌞both⌟ the man of integrity and the wicked.’
- Job 12:6⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.
- Mark 7:21Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,
- Luke 6:45Good people do the good that is in them. But evil people do the evil that is in them. The things people say come from inside them.
- James 1:26If a person thinks that he is religious but can’t control his tongue, he is fooling himself. That person’s religion is worthless.
- Psalms 50:19You let your mouth say anything evil. Your tongue plans deceit.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue makes up threats. It’s like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.
- Psalms 64:3They sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim bitter words like arrows
- Psalms 120:2O Lord, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 9:3They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows. Lies and dishonesty rule the land. They go from one evil thing to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the Lord.
- James 3:5In the same way the tongue is a small part of the body, but it can brag about doing important things. A large forest can be set on fire by a little flame.
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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