Job 15:5

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

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  • Job 5:13 : 13 He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled.
  • Job 9:22-24 : 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. 23 When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
  • Job 12:6 : 6 "The tents of robbers are at ease, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their own hand."
  • Ps 50:19-20 : 19 You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.' 3 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long. 4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of those who practice wickedness.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. 3 What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue?
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander. 4 Each one deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth. They have trained their tongues to speak lies and exhaust themselves with wrongdoing. 5 You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
  • Luke 6:45 : 45 A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone thinks he is religious but does not bridle his tongue, and deceives his heart, his religion is worthless.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it boasts of great things. Consider how a small fire sets a great forest ablaze. 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting the entire course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7 Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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    16But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

    17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

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    19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

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    2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'

    3Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long.

    4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.

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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

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    7For my mouth speaks truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

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    12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

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    4But you are tearing down reverence and diminishing devotion to God.

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    3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

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    2you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth.

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    6Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore, fear God.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut off.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversities.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Who is the person who desires life and loves many days to see good?

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    5But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

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    2The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of fools gushes folly.

  • Job 13:7
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    7Will you speak unjustly on God's behalf and speak deceitfully for Him?

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    4A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

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    4Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

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    12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

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    3What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue?

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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

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    8Whose mouths speak falsehood and whose right hand is a right hand of deception.

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    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern disaster?

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    2So you may preserve discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

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    20The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

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    4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

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    37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

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    2For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

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    12A worthless person, a man of wickedness, walks with a corrupt mouth,

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    25Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

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    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

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