Job 15:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

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  • Job 5:13 : 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is brought to a rapid end.
  • Job 9:22-24 : 22 This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand 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 prosper, and those who provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
  • Ps 50:19-20 : 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD. 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk 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, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
  • Luke 6:45 : 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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  • Ps 50:16-20
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    16But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?

    17Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

    18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

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  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

    4You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Job 15:13
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    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

    10Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

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    4Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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

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    2The tongue of the wise uses knowledge appropriately, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

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    7Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Rom 3:14
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    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

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    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

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    8Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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    30The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

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    30Is there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern perverse things?

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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

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    20The tongue of the just is as choice silver, the heart of the wicked is of little worth.

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    4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

  • Matt 12:37
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    37For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

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    25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.