Cross references

Job 15:5

For your iniquity instructs your mouth,

and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:5 BSB

Job 15:5 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 9:3–5 (5 votes) and James 1:26 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 27 to James 3.

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Which verses does Job 15:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. …

  2. James 1:265 votes

    If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

  3. You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

  4. Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah …

  5. Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

  6. Luke 6:454 votes

    The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

  7. In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. …

  8. Job 5:133 votes

    He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

  9. It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent. …

  10. Psalm 64:33 votes

    who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

  11. Job 12:62 votes

    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

  12. For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Which verses point to Job 15:5?

The 10 strongest of 12.