Job 15:5

In 11 translations

BSB

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

KJV

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.uttereth: Heb. teacheth

WEB

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

ASV

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

LSV

For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.

YLT

For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

DBY

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

DRC

For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

GNV

For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

JPS

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

LXXE

Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

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WLC

כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֺנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ἔνοχος εἶ ῥήμασι στόματός σου, οὐδὲ διέκρινας ῥήματα δυναστῶν.

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• Jeremiah 9:3–5“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not…
• James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
• Psalms 50:19–20You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Psalms 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
• Luke 6:45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• James 3:5–8In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the…
• Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
• Psalms 120:2–3Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
• Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
• Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
• Job 9:22–24It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He…
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
• Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

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