For your iniquity prompts your mouth and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
and show you the secrets of wisdom— for sound wisdom has two sides. Know that God has forgotten some of your iniquity.
The tents of marauders prosper, and there is security for those who provoke God— for those whom God brings in His hand.
You even do away with reverence and hinder devotion before God.
Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquity?
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite of the clan of Ram became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
Who frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands attain no success.
Who catches the clever in their craftiness, and thwarts the plan of the cunning.
Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
For such things shall I not punish them?” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
“Out of the good treasure of his heart the good man brings forth good, and out of evil the evil man brings forth evil. For from the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.”
If anyone thinks he is religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is futile.