New King James 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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 reason with unprofitable talk, Or by speeches with which he can do no good? 4Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you. 7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
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 one thing; Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure— In what God provides by His hand.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Luke 6:45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
- James 1:26If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.
- Psalms 50:19You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 64:3Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips And from a deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 9:3“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord.
- James 3:5Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
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
Topics related to Job 15:5
In the dictionaries
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
New King James Version — © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc
Commentaries