Job 15:5
Good News Translation
Your wickedness is evident by what you say; you are trying to hide behind clever words.

New Revised Standard Version
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

Contemporary English Version
And your sinful, scheming mind is the source of all you say.

New American Bible
Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

uttereth.

Job 9:22-24 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth. . . .

Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . .

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

James 1:26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

thou choosest

Psalm 50:19,20 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. . . .

Psalm 52:2-4 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. . . .

Psalm 64:3 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Psalm 120:2,3 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. . . .

Jeremiah 9:3-5,8 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

James 3:5-8 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
4As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God. 5For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.6Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.…
Cross References
Job 5:12
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Job 5:13
Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

Job 11:6
That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

Job 15:4
As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

Job 22:5
And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

Job 15:4
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