Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
World English Bible Classic
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 teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Psalms 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Matthew 26:65Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard 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 →