Verse 5
Job 15:5
Free Bible Version
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Your own mouth is condemning you, not me; your own lips are testifying against you.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֺנְ/ךָ֣ פִ֑י/ךָ וְ֝/תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים
English Translation
For your mouth will teach your sin, and you will choose the language of the cunning.
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Chapter 15 Context
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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“Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?
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But you are doing away with the fear of God (Elohim), and destroying communion with him.
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It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.
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Your own mouth is condemning you, not me; your own lips are testifying against you.
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Were you the very first person to be born? Were you born before the hills were created?
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Were you there listening in God (Elohim)'s council? Does wisdom only belong to you?
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What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that we don't?
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We have among us old, gray-haired people much older than your father!
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Are the comforts God (Elohim) provides too little for you? Are God (Elohim)'s gentle words not enoug...
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Why do you let yourself be carried away by your emotions?
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Why do your eyes flash in anger that you turn against God (Elohim) and let yourself speak this way?
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Who can say they are clean? Which human being can say that they do what is right?
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Look, God (Elohim) doesn't even trust his angels—even the heavenly beings are not pure in his sight!
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How much less pure are those who are unclean and corrupt, drinking in sin like water!
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If you are ready to listen to me, I will show you. I will explain my insights.
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This is what wise men have said, confirmed by their ancestors,
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The wicked writhe in pain all their lives, through all the years these oppressors survive.
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Terrifying sounds fill their ears; even when they think they're safe, the destroyer will attack them...
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They don't believe they will escape the darkness—they know a sword is waiting for them.
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They wander around looking for food, asking ‘Where is it?’ They know that their day of darkness is c...
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They shake their fists in God (Elohim)'s face, defiantly challenging the Almighty,
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They have become fat in their rebellion, their bellies bloated with fat.
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But their cities will become desolate; they will live in abandoned houses that are crumbling into ru...
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They will lose their riches, their wealth will not endure, their possessions will not spread over th...
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They will not escape from the darkness. Like a tree whose shoots are burned up in a forest fire, the...
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They should not trust in things that are worthless, for their reward will be worthless.
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This will be paid in full before their time has come. They are like tree branches that wither,
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like vines that lose their unripe grapes, or olive trees that lose their flowers.
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For those who reject God (Elohim) are barren, and fire will burn up the homes of those who love brib...
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They plan trouble and produce evil, giving birth to deception.”
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