Job 15:6
Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
In Context
5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
Cross References
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Matthew 26:65At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →