Job 15:5
3 Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- KJV
- For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- WEB
- For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- ASV
- For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- DARBY
- For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
- BLB
- For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- ÅB
- for din synd legger ordene i din munn, og du velger falske menns tale.
- OTB
- Din urett leder din tale,
og du velger de listiges tunge. - B1930
- for din synd legger ordene i din munn, og du velger falske menns tale.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 9:3–5
“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.
Read in contextJames 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Read in contextLuke 6:45
The 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.
Read in contextPsalms 52:2–4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:8
Their 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.
Read in contextJames 3:5–8
In 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.
Read in contextPsalms 50:19–20
You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Read in contextPsalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
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