Job 15:5
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
In Context
4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
Job 32:2and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;
Psalms 52:2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalms 120:2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Jeremiah 9:8A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its 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 →