Job 15:5

Your sin inspires ¹  your mouth; you choose the language ²  of the crafty. ³ 

biblegateway Job 15:5

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

biblegateway Job 15:5

"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

biblegateway Job 15:5

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

biblegateway Job 15:5

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

SABDAweb Job 15:5

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

bibleoremus Job 15:5

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

biblegateway Job 15:5

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

biblegateway Job 15:5

Your sin inspires ¹  your mouth; you choose the language ²  of the crafty. ³ 

¹ tn The verb אַלֵּף (’allef) has the meaning of “to teach; to instruct,” but it is unlikely that the idea of revealing is intended. If the verb is understood metonymically, then “to inspire; to prompt” will be sufficient. Dahood and others find another root, and render the verb “to increase,” reversing subject and object: “your mouth increases your iniquity.”

² tn Heb “tongue.”

³ tn The word means “shrewd; crafty; cunning” (see Gen 3:1). Job uses clever speech that is misleading and destructive.