Job 15:6
Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, || And your lips testify against you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
In Context
5For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
7Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
Cross References
Job 9:20If I am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,
Job 40:8Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be righteous?
Psalms 64:8And they cause him to stumble, || Their own tongue [is] against them, || Every looker on them flees away.
Matthew 26:65Then the chief priest tore his garments, saying, “He has slandered; what need have we yet of witnesses? Behold, now you heard His slander;
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 →