Job 15:6
4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
- KJV
- Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- WEB
- Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- ASV
- Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- DARBY
- Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
- BLB
- Your own mouth declares you wicked, and not I; and your lips testify against you.
- ÅB
- Din egen munn domfeller deg, ikke jeg; dine lepper vitner mot deg.
- OTB
- Din egen munn dømmer deg, ikke jeg;
dine egne lepper vitner mot deg. - B1930
- Din egen munn domfeller dig, ikke jeg; dine leber vidner mot dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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?
Read in contextMatthew 12:37
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Read in contextJob 9:20
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Read in contextJob 40:8
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Read in contextJob 34:5–9
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Read in contextJob 35:2–3
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Read in contextJob 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.
Read in contextJob 33:8–12
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
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