Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- KJV Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- NKJV Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- NASB “Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you.
- NLT Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz claims Job's own words condemn him. He says Job convicts himself by his speech.
Overview
Eliphaz declares, 'Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.' He treats Job's protests as self-incriminating testimony. By this Eliphaz avoids proving any specific charge, instead turning Job's honest words into supposed evidence of guilt, a tactic that mistakes lament for confession.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 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 not sow?
- Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Matt 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Job 42:3You 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.
- Ps 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
- Job 35:2–3“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
- Job 33:8–12Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Job 34:5–9For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Matt 26:65At 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.
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