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, Proverbs 16:27, and is like Achilles, of whom Homer saith, that he was a great fault finder (Iliad, xi. 653).
Dεινος ανηρ, ταχα κεν και αναιτιον αιτιοωτο .
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, Hosea 5:5, and the heretic is contemned of himself, Titus 3:11. Virtually he doth so, though not formally. But Job did neither, good Eliphaz.