Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen 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.
Julia Smith Translation
For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose 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 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
Cross References
Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
Job 9:22-24
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 12:6
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
Psalm 50:19-20
Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
Psalm 120:2-3
Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. A man speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Luke 6:45
The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked man out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
James 1:26
If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 3:5-8
Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!