Job 15:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
  • Matt 12:37 : 37 For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
  • Job 9:20 : 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears: 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me: 10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters; 11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways. 12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.
  • Job 34:5-9 : 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right; 6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong. 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God, 8 And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners? 9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
  • Job 35:2-3 : 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
  • Job 42:3 : 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
  • Matt 26:65 : 65 Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:

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    5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

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    78%

    19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

    20You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.

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    37For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

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    2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Prov 6:2-3
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    2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

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  • Job 15:13
    75%

    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Eccl 7:22
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    22Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.

  • Prov 8:6-7
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    6Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

    7For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • Job 15:7
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    7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

  • Job 11:3-5
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    3Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

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    5But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

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    20Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • Prov 18:6-7
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    6A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

    7The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

  • Job 36:17
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    18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

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    16But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?

  • Prov 30:6
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    6Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

  • Prov 24:28
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    28Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

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    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

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    32If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

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    13And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.

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    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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    6Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

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    8But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:

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    16And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

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    26For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

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    4Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

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    30Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?

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    17The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.

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    4Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

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    1So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

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    8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

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    5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

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    4Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

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    12I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

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    6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.