Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:6

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

6. But in truth such utterances of his mouth clearly suggested the source which inspired them, other proof of his guilt than they was not needed. Thus in Job 15:5 Job’s language and sentiments are explained by his guilt, and in Job 15:6 his guilt is proved by his language; and both verses support the charge in Job 15:4 that he was doing away, breaking with, the fear of God.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Thine own mouth condemneth thee – That is, the sentiments which you have uttered show that you cannot be a pious man.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

My condemnation of thee is grounded upon thine own words.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

6. No pious man wouldutter such sentiments.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I,…. Or shows thee to be a wicked person, guilty of things charged upon thee; out of thine own mouth thou art convicted, there needs no other evidence to be brought against thee, that is sufficient: and thou savest me, and any other, the trouble of passing the sentence of condemnation upon thee; thou hast done it thyself, thine own mouth is judge and jury, and brings in the verdict, and pronounces it, as well as is the witness, as follows, and is instead of a thousand witnesses, Job 9:20;

yea, thine own lips testify against thee; and therefore there were no need of producing any other testimony; what he had said showed that his talk was vain and unprofitable, unbecoming a wise man, and tending to make null and void the fear of God among men, to discourage all religious exercises, and particularly prayer before God.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Ver. 6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I ] Yes, you, and none but you. Job’s heart condemneth him not (and thence his confidence toward God, 1Jn 3:21 ), much less his mouth, had not his words been misconstrued. But as charity maketh a good sense of doubtful speeches and passages, so prejudice and displeasure takes all things (though well meant) at the worst, and as logicians do, Sequitur partem deteriorem. Eliphaz diggeth up evil, Pro 16:27 , and is like Achilles, of whom Homer saith, that he was a great fault finder (Iliad, xi. 653).

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Yea, thine own lips testify against thee ] Heb. Answer against thee. For witnesses ordinarily answer to interrogatories. So the pride of Israel (breaking forth as a great master pockmark in his forehead) testified to his face, Hos 5:5 , and the heretic is contemned of himself, Tit 3:11 . Virtually he doth so, though not formally. But Job did neither, good Eliphaz.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

own mouth: Job 9:20, Psa 64:8, Mat 12:37, Mat 26:65, Luk 19:22

thine own: Job 33:8-12, Job 34:5-9, Job 35:2, Job 35:3, Job 40:8, Job 42:3

Reciprocal: Jos 24:22 – Ye are witnesses 2Sa 1:16 – mouth 1Ki 20:40 – So shall thy judgment be Job 9:31 – shalt Job 22:5 – not thy Job 22:20 – our substance Mat 21:31 – The first Mat 23:31 – witnesses Mat 25:26 – Thou Luk 11:19 – shall Luk 11:48 – ye bear

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge