Job 15:5
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
In Context
4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap 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 →