Job 15:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Common English Bible

⁵ Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times; you opt for a clever tongue.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.

Job 15:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Job 5:12

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

Job 11:6

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Job 15:4

But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;