Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.
New American Standard Bible
And you choose the language of
King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Holman Bible
and you choose the language of the crafty.
International Standard Version
Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.
A Conservative Version
For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.
American Standard Version
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Amplified
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
Bible in Basic English
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Darby Translation
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
King James 2000
For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.
Modern King James verseion
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue.
NET Bible
Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
New Heart English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
The Emphasized Bible
For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
Webster
For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
World English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Youngs Literal Translation
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
Interlinear
Peh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
4 Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation before God. 5 For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thy mouth will condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips will testify against thee.
Cross References
Job 5:13
He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.
Job 9:22-24
It is one: for this, I said, The blameless one and the unjust one he finishes.
Job 12:6
The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand
Psalm 50:19-20
Thou sentest thy month into evil, and thy tongue will contrive deceit
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.
Psalm 64:3
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
Psalm 120:2-3
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue a deadly arrow, speaking deceit; in his mouth he will speak peace to his neighbor, and be will lay his wait in his midst
Mark 7:21-22
For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.
James 1:26
If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.
James 3:5-8
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames