Parallel Verses
King James 2000
For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you 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.
Julia Smith Translation
For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt 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, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God. 5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.
Cross References
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is quickly ended.
Job 9:22-24
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Psalm 50:19-20
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalm 120:2-3
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Luke 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
James 1:26
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 3:5-8
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!