Job 15:5

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

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In The King James Version

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

In Context

4Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

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Cross References

Job 9:22It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

Job 22:5Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

Job 32:2And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Psalms 52:2\52:1\When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.

Psalms 120:2O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.

Jeremiah 9:8His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17

Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →

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