Job 15:5

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

⁴ “Indeed, you do away with reverence
And hinder meditation before God.
⁵ “For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of the crafty.
⁶ “Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

Job

Sin

Job 5:13

“He captures the wise by their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.

Job 9:22-24

“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.’

Job 12:6

“The tents of the destroyers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure,
Whom God brings into their power.

Psalm 50:19-20

“You let your mouth loose in evil
And your tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 52:2-4

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 64:3

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Psalm 120:2-3

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

Jeremiah 9:3-5

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

“Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.

James 1:26

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

James 3:5-8

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!