Job 15:5

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

⁴ But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.
⁵ Your iniquity teaches you what to say,
and you choose the language of the crafty.
⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.

Job

Sin

Job 5:13

He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.

Job 9:22-24

It is all the same. Therefore I say,
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe,
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.

Psalm 50:19-20

You unleash your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue for deceit.

Psalm 52:2-4

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

Psalm 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 120:2-3

“Lord, deliver me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”

Jeremiah 9:3-5

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.
With his mouth
a man speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

Luke 6:45

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

James 1:26

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.

James 3:5-8

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.