Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
In Context
4Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
Job 32:2Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God;
Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Psalms 120:2Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:8Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. [A man] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.
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 →