Job 15:6
Yours own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, yours own lips testify against you.
Updated King James 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 utters yours iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
7Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
Cross References
Job 9:20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.
Job 40:8Will you also nullify my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
Psalms 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Matthew 26:65Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now all of 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 →