Parallel Verses
Amplified
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
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.
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.
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
“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,
And you are diminishing meditation before God.
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Cross References
Job 5:13
“He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.
Job 9:22-24
“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 12:6
“The tents of the destroyers prosper;
And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,
Whom God brings into their power.
Psalm 50:19-20
“You give your mouth to evil
And your tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
Psalm 120:2-3
Rescue my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:8
“Their tongue is a murderous arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But in his heart he lays traps and waits in ambush for him.
Mark 7:21-22
Luke 6:45
James 1:26
If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren).
James 3:5-8
In the same sense, the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.
See [by comparison] how great a forest is set on fire by a small spark!