Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
In Context
4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Cross References
Job 9:22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Psalms 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:8Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush 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 →