Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language 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.
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.
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 Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God. 5 Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."
Cross References
Job 5:13
He captures the wise in their own craftiness, bringing a quick end to their cunning advice.
Job 9:22-24
I say it's all the same he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.
Psalm 50:19-20
You give your mouth free reign for evil, and your tongue devises deceit.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.
Psalm 64:3
who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Psalm 120:2-3
"LORD, deliver me from lips that lie and tongues that deceive."
Jeremiah 9:3-5
They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow that speaks deceit. With his mouth a person says, "Peace,' to his friend, but inwardly he sets a trap for him.
Mark 7:21-22
because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,
Luke 6:45
A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure, because the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart."
James 1:26
If anyone thinks that he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but instead deceives himself, his religion is worthless.
James 3:5-8
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it can boast of great achievements. A huge forest can be set on fire by a little flame.