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Job 15:5
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Your iniquity teaches you what to say,and you choose the language of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Your sin teaches your mouth what to say; you use words to trick others.
Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
"For your wrongdoing teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the cunning.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
And your sinful, scheming mind is the source of all you say.
Your iniquity is teaching you how to speak, and deceit is your language of choice.
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
What you say clearly shows your sin. Job, you are trying to hide your sin by using clever words.
For your mouth is accustomed to utter sinful things, and you choose the deceitful tongue of the crafty.
Your wickedness is evident by what you say; you are trying to hide behind clever words.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.
Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For wickidnesse hath tauyt thi mouth, and thou suest the tunge of blasfemeris.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
You show your sin by what you say. You are trying to hide behind your words.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
uttereth: Heb. teacheth, Job 9:22-24, Job 12:6, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Luke 6:45, James 1:26
thou choosest: Psalms 50:19, Psalms 50:20, Psalms 52:2-4, Psalms 64:3, Psalms 120:2, Psalms 120:3, Jeremiah 9:3-5, Jeremiah 9:8, James 3:5-8
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:24 - I am Job 9:20 - mine Job 22:5 - not thy Job 22:20 - our substance Job 33:32 - General Job 34:8 - General Jeremiah 9:5 - taught Matthew 23:31 - witnesses Matthew 25:26 - Thou Luke 19:22 - Out
Cross-References
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.
And I wyl make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that yf a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede also be numbred.
And agayne he saide vnto him: I am the Lorde that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to geue thee this lande, & that thou myghtest inherite it.
And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
And agayne the angell of the Lord sayde vnto her: I wyll multiplie thy seede in such sort, that it shal not be numbred for multitude.
That in blessing I wyll blesse thee, and in multiplying I wyll multiplie thy seede as the starres of heauen, and as the sande which is vpon the sea side, and thy seede shall possesse the gates of his enemies.
And wyl make thy seede to multiplie as the starres of heauen, and wyll geue vnto thy seede al these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
And thy seede shalbe as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south: and in thee, and in thy seede, shall all the kynredes of the earth be blessed.
Remember Abraham, Isahac, and Israel thy seruauntes, to whom thou swarest by thy owne selfe, and saydest vnto them: I wyll multiplie your seede as the starres of heauen, and all this lande that I haue spoken of wyll I geue vnto your seede, and they shall inherite it for euer.
For the Lorde your God hath multiplied you: so that you be this day as the starres of heauen in number.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,.... Which was in his heart, and so was an evidence against him, and proved him perverse, and made good the above charges exhibited against him: or "thine iniquity teaches thy mouth" y; the wickedness that was in his heart prompted his mouth to speak the things he did, see Matthew 12:34; and this, as it was an instance of his folly, Proverbs 15:2; so a proof of his casting off the fear of the Lord; for if that had been before his eyes, he would have bridled his lips, and not uttered all the wickedness of his heart: for he that "bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain", James 1:26;
and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty; coloured over things under specious pretences of religion and godliness, so that the simple and ignorant took him for a holy good man, when he was at heart an hypocrite; in this light Eliphaz puts Job, as one that walked and talked in craftiness, and was a deceitful worker, and imposed upon men with false glosses and plausible pretences.
y יאלף עונך פיך "docuit iniquitas tua os tuum", V. L. Pagninus, Bolducius; "docebit", Montanus; "docet", Piscator, Cocceius; so Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity - Margin, “teacheth.” That is, “your whole argument shows that you are a guilty man. A man who can defend such positions about God cannot be a pious man, or have any proper veneration for the Most High.” A man may pursue an argument, and defend positions, that shall as certainly show that he is destitute of religion as though he lived an abandoned life; and he who holds opinions that are dishonorable to God, can no more be a pious man than if he dishonored God by violating his law.
Thou choosest the tongue of the crafty - Instead of pursuing an argument with candor and sincerity, you have resorted to miserable sophisms, such as running disputants use. You have not showed a disposition to ascertain and defend the truth, but have relied on the arts and evasions of the subtle disputant and the rhetorician. His whole discourse, according to Eliphaz, was a work of mere art, designed to blind his hearers; to deceive them with a favorable opinion of his piety; and to give some plausible, but delusive view of the government of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:5. For thy mouth uttereth — In attempting to justify thyself, thou hast added iniquity to sin, and hast endeavoured to impute blame to thy Maker.
The tongue of the crafty. — Thou hast varnished thy own conduct, and used sophistical arguments to defend thyself. Thou resemblest those cunning persons, ערומים arumim, who derive their skill and dexterity from the old serpent, "the nachash, who was ערום arum, subtle, or crafty, beyond all the beasts of the field;" Genesis 3:1. Thy wisdom is not from above, but from beneath.
