Job 15:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 5:13 : 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 9:22-24 : 22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. 23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock 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 not he, then who is it?
  • Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
  • Ps 50:19-20 : 19 "You give your mouth to evil. 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 plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 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 don't know me, says Yahweh. 4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 They will deceive everyone 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 speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Luke 6:45 : 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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  • Job 15:6
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    6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Ps 50:16-20
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    16But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

    17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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

    19"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

    20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

    4You love all devouring words, you 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?

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

    10Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Job 15:4
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    4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion 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 trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. 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 righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

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

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

  • Job 11:5
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    5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

  • Prov 15:2
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    2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

  • Job 13:7
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    7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

  • Prov 17:4
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    4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous 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 your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, 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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    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Ps 37:30
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    30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

  • Job 6:30
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    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

  • Ps 109:2
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    2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 10:20
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    20The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

  • Jer 5:25
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    25"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32"If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.