Job 15:5

5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:5 in Other Translations

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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

5 Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.

5 It's your sin that taught you to talk this way. You chose an education in fraud.

5 Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 15:5

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity
Which was in his heart, and so was an evidence against him, and proved him perverse, and made good the above charges exhibited against him: or "thine iniquity teaches thy mouth" ^F25; the wickedness that was in his heart prompted his mouth to speak the things he did, see ( Matthew 12:34 ) ; and this, as it was an instance of his folly, ( Proverbs 15:2 ) ; so a proof of his casting off the fear of the Lord; for if that had been before his eyes, he would have bridled his lips, and not uttered all the wickedness of his heart: for he that "bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain", ( James 1:26 ) ;

and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty;
coloured over things under specious pretences of religion and godliness, so that the simple and ignorant took him for a holy good man, when he was at heart an hypocrite; in this light Eliphaz puts Job, as one that walked and talked in craftiness, and was a deceitful worker, and imposed upon men with false glosses and plausible pretences.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Kyp Knwe Play) "docuit iniquitas tua os tuum", V. L. Pagninus, Bolducius; "docebit", Montanus; "docet", Piscator, Cocceius; so Tigurine version.

Job 15:5 In-Context

3 Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

7 “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Cross References

• 1. Job 11:6; Job 22:5
• 2. Proverbs 16:23
• 3. S Job 5:13