John Gill Commentary Job 15:5

"For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty." — Job 15:5 (ASV)

For your mouth utters your iniquity
Which was in his heart, and so was an evidence against him, and proved him perverse, and made good the above charges exhibited against him.

Or "your iniquity teaches your mouth" ^F25 ; the wickedness that was in his heart prompted his mouth to speak the things he did, see (Matthew 12:34) ; and this, as it was an instance of his folly, (Proverbs 15:2) ; so a proof of his casting off the fear of the Lord; for if that has been before his eyes, he would have bridled his lips, and not uttered all the wickedness of his heart: for he that "bridles not his tongue, this man's religion is vain", (James 1:26) ;

and you choose the tongue of the crafty ;
coloured over things under specious pretences of religion and godliness, so that the simple and ignorant took him for a holy good man, when he was at heart an hypocrite; in this light Eliphaz puts Job, as one that walked and talked in craftiness, and was a deceitful worker, and imposed upon men with false glosses and plausible pretences.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: (Kyp Knwe Play) "docuit iniquitas tua os tuum", V. L. Pagninus, Bolducius; "docebit", Montanus; "docet", Piscator, Cocceius; so Tigurine version.