Job 15:6
in Job 15Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
KJV
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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This verse in Job 15
Commentary
7 notes on this verseBut he should have considered that he and his fellows had provoked him to say that which now they took advantage of; and that was not fair. Those are most effectually condemned that are condemned by themselves, Tit. iii. Many a man needs no more to sink him than for his own tongue to fall upon him.
This site's exposition
undermine the fear of God
on Job 15:4-6
Eliphaz raises the charge from bad argument to irreligion, saying Job would "undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him". He claims "your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty", the deceit Job warned the friends against at 13:7.
This site's exposition
your own lips testify against you
Eliphaz needs no witness beyond Job's own mouth and lips. Henry grants that those whom their own mouth condemns are condemned most effectually, yet adds the friends had provoked the words they use against him.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
So Eliphaz wishes to condemn Job for arguing and he first says that Job had spoken such manifest evil that no other reproof is necessary. His very words themselves show his evil intent. He expresses this saying, "Your mouth will condemn you and not I, …
Ver. 6. Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips shall answer thee. For because they suppose that the evils of adversity break out in consequence of the erroneousness of confession; they say that 'her own lips shall answer her,' so that fault of utterances should be the cause of the scourge. But sometimes they desire to repress it as if by reasoning.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Thine own mouth condemneth thee - That is, the sentiments which you have uttered show that you cannot be a pious man.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַרְשִֽׁיעֲךָ֣ | yarshiakha | it condemns as guilty you | H7561 → | 34 times |
| פִ֣יךָ | fikha | own mouth your | H6310 → | 498 times |
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אָ֑נִי | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָ | usefateikha | and own lips your | H8193 → | 176 times |
| יַעֲנוּ־ | yaanu- | they testify | H6030 → | 331 times |
| בָֽךְ׃ | vakh | against you |
יַרְשִֽׁיעֲךָ֣it condemns as guilty you
yarshiakhaH7561 →34 times
פִ֣יךָown mouth your
fikhaH6310 →498 times
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
אָ֑נִיI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָand own lips your
usefateikhaH8193 →176 times
יַעֲנוּ־they testify
yaanu-H6030 →331 times
בָֽךְ׃against you
vakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
it leads to
- Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
- Proverbs 13:3
Through
Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did…
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 1:16
For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
- Job 15:5–6
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Matthew 22:12
‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
- 2 Samuel 1:16
Through
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
it leads to
- Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Psalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Job 4:17
About Job
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.