Job 15:5
You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
In Context
4Have not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
6Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you.
Cross References
Job 9:22Therefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
Job 22:5Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
Job 32:2Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.
Psalms 52:2God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. 1
Psalms 120:2My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. 1
Jeremiah 9:8Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.
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 →