Job 15:6
Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
BSB
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.
But 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.
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Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
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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…
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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.’”
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
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Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
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‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?