Job 15:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.”
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“For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 15:5 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
- Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- 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 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- 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.
- Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Luke 6:45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).