Bible verse
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 15.
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
3 Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
KJV
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
ASV
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
ERV
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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