Job 15:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי יְאַלֵּף עֲוֺנְךָ פִיךָ וְתִבְחַר לְשׁוֹן עֲרוּמִים

Transliteration

kî yəʾallēp̄ ʿăwōnḵā p̄îḵā wə-tiḇḥar ləšôn ʿărûmîm

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for, because
• *yəʾallēp̄*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it teaches/trains
• *ʿăwōnḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your iniquity
• *p̄îḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your mouth
• *wə-tiḇḥar*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you choose
• *ləšôn*: noun, feminine singular - tongue/language
• *ʿărûmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - crafty/shrewd ones

Word Meanings

• *ʾālap̄*: to teach, instruct, train
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity, guilt, punishment
• *peh*: mouth, opening, speech
• *bāḥar*: to choose, select, elect
• *lāšôn*: tongue, language, speech
• *ʿārûm*: crafty, shrewd, cunning

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
• Job 9:22-24 : 22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?
• Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
• Ps 50:19-20 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {H5542} 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Ps 64:3 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
• Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
• Luke 6:45 : 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil [man] out of the evil [treasure] {G846} {G2588} bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
• Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man {G1722} {G5213} thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
• Jas 3:5-8 : 5 None So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, {G5037} of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.