Job 15:5
Verse 5 of 35. The 15th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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Job 15:5 in the World English Bible
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.Read Job 15:5 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 15:5
Upon this strained innuendo Eliphaz grounds that high charge of impiety (v. 5): Thy mouth utters thy iniquity—teaches it, so the word is. "Thou teachest others to have the same hard thoughts of God and religion that thou thyself hast." It is bad to break even the least of the commandments, but worse to teach men so, Matt. v. 19.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 15:1–16: Second Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.