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Literal Standard Version

Job 15:5

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Craftiness;   Duplicity;   Simplicity-Duplicity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Works, Good;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Tongue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eliphaz (2);   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your iniquity teaches you what to say,and you choose the language of the crafty.
Hebrew Names Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
King James Version
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
English Standard Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
New Century Version
Your sin teaches your mouth what to say; you use words to trick others.
New English Translation
Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
Amplified Bible
"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
New American Standard Bible
"For your wrongdoing teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the cunning.
World English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
Legacy Standard Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Berean Standard Bible
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Contemporary English Version
And your sinful, scheming mind is the source of all you say.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your iniquity is teaching you how to speak, and deceit is your language of choice.
Darby Translation
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Easy-to-Read Version
What you say clearly shows your sin. Job, you are trying to hide your sin by using clever words.
George Lamsa Translation
For your mouth is accustomed to utter sinful things, and you choose the deceitful tongue of the crafty.
Good News Translation
Your wickedness is evident by what you say; you are trying to hide behind clever words.
Lexham English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Literal Translation
For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
King James Version (1611)
For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
English Revised Version
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For wickidnesse hath tauyt thi mouth, and thou suest the tunge of blasfemeris.
Update Bible Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
New King James Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
New Living Translation
Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
New Life Bible
You show your sin by what you say. You are trying to hide behind your words.
New Revised Standard
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
Revised Standard Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Young's Literal Translation
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

Contextual Overview

1And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says: 2"Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind? 3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them? 4Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God. 5For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.6Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, || And your lips testify against you. 7Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights? 8Do you hear of the secret counsel of God? And withdraw wisdom to you? 9What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us? 10Both the gray-headed || And the very aged [are] among us—Greater than your father [in] days.

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

Genesis 12:2
And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
Genesis 15:7
And He says to him, "I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it";
Genesis 15:8
and he says, "Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?"
Genesis 16:10
and the Messenger of YHWH says to her, "Multiplying I multiply your seed, and it is not numbered from multitude";
Genesis 22:17
that blessing I bless you, and multiplying I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the seashore; and your Seed possesses the gate of His enemies;
Genesis 26:4
and I have multiplied your seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to your seed all these lands; and all nations of the earth have blessed themselves in your Seed;
Genesis 28:14
and your seed has been as the dust of the land, and you have broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you and in your seed.
Exodus 32:13
Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Your servants, to whom You have sworn by Yourself, and to whom You speak: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited [it] for all time";
Deuteronomy 1:10
your God YHWH has multiplied you, and behold, today you [are] as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

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.


 
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