New Living Translation
Job 15:5
5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
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
3The wise don’t engage in empty chatter. What good are such words? 4Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him? Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception. 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you. 7“Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?
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 9:22Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God. That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 12:6But robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God live in safety— though God keeps them in his power.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- Luke 6:45A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.
- James 1:26If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
- Psalms 50:19Your mouth is filled with wickedness, and your tongue is full of lies.
- Psalms 52:2All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies.
- Psalms 64:3They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.
- Psalms 120:2Rescue me, O Lord, from liars and from all deceitful people.
- Jeremiah 9:3“My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot out lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. They only go from bad to worse. They do not know me,” says the Lord.
- James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on 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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