Bible Strands
Job 15:6
Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz speaks to Job in the midst of their dialogue, immediately after accusing him of choosing crafty language and before asking rhetorical questions about Job’s age and origin.
The words — פִיךָ (Fi./kha) means “your own mouth,” and יַרְשִׁיעֲךָ (yar.shi.'a./Kha) means “it condemns you as guilty,” anchoring the verse’s claim that the verdict comes from Job’s own speech.
The thread — The motif of speech as self-incrimination runs through Job 9:20, Matthew 12:37, and Luke 19:22, where words function as the direct evidence for judgment.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to treat their own words as objective evidence, demanding direct self-evaluation rather than waiting for external accusation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Cross-references
- Luke 19:22 His 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 not sow?
- Job 9:20 Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Matthew 12:37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Job 33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
- Job 34:5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 35:2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
- Job 40:8 Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Job 42:3 You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
- Psalms 64:8 They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
- Matthew 26:65 At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.