6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. …
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…
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