Job 15:6
Your own mouth is condemning you, not me; your own lips are testifying against you.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
In Context
5It's your sins that are doing the talking, and you are choosing deceptive words.
7Were you the very first person to be born? Were you born before the hills were created?
Cross References
Job 9:20Even though I am right, my own mouth would condemn me; even though I am innocent, he would prove me wrong.
Job 34:5Job said, ‘I am innocent, and God has denied me justice.
Job 40:8Are you really going to say my decisions are wrong? Are you going to condemn me so you can be right?
Psalms 64:8What they themselves say will trip them up; people who see them will mock them, shaking their heads at them.
Matthew 26:65Then the high priest tore his clothes, and said, “He's speaking blasphemy! Why do we need any witnesses? Look, now you've heard for yourselves his 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 →