"For your guilt teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty": The accusation here is that Job's rebellion, for which God is supposedly punishing him, is now breaking out in his speech. "Your sin causes you to speak irreverently against God. Your very words of boastful self-defense testify to the presence of inner sin" (Zuck p. 69). In addition, Job is speaking like the "crafty", the same Hebrew word is used of the serpent in Genesis 3:1.

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