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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  • 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

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

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

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

    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

    10 Destroy 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.

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

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

  • 12 For 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.

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

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

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

  • 6 Do 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?

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    31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 4 Against 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,

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

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

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

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

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

  • 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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