2 Samuel 1:16
Context1:16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the Lord’s anointed to death.’”
Job 15:5-6
Context15:5 Your sin inspires 1 your mouth;
you choose the language 2 of the crafty. 3
15:6 Your own mouth condemns 4 you, not I;
your own lips testify against 5 you.
Matthew 12:37
Context12:37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Matthew 22:12
Context22:12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say. 6
Romans 3:19
Context3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under 7 the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
[15:5] 1 tn The verb אַלֵּף (’allef) has the meaning of “to teach; to instruct,” but it is unlikely that the idea of revealing is intended. If the verb is understood metonymically, then “to inspire; to prompt” will be sufficient. Dahood and others find another root, and render the verb “to increase,” reversing subject and object: “your mouth increases your iniquity.”
[15:5] 3 tn The word means “shrewd; crafty; cunning” (see Gen 3:1). Job uses clever speech that is misleading and destructive.
[15:6] 4 tn The Hiphil of this root means “declare wicked, guilty” (a declarative Hiphil), and so “condemns.”
[15:6] 5 tn The verb עָנָה (’anah) with the ל (lamed) preposition following it means “to testify against.” For Eliphaz, it is enough to listen to Job to condemn him.