Job 15:6
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6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.(A)
Luke 19:22
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22 He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?(A)
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Matthew 12:37
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37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Job 9:20
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20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Matthew 26:65
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65 Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.(A)
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Psalm 64:8
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8 Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin;[a]
all who see them will shake with horror.(A)
Footnotes
- 64.8 Cn: Heb They will bring him to ruin, their tongue being against them
Job 42:3
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3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me that I did not know.(A)
Job 40:8
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)
Job 35:2-3
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2 “Do you think this to be just?
You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’(A)
3 If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’(B)
Job 34:5-9
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5 For Job has said, ‘I am innocent,
and God has taken away my right;
6 in spite of being right I am counted a liar;
my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’(A)
7 Who is there like Job,
who drinks up scoffing like water,(B)
8 who goes in company with evildoers
and walks with the wicked?(C)
9 For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing
to take delight in God.’(D)
Job 33:8-12
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8 “Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard the sound of your words.
9 You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;
I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.(A)
10 Look, he finds occasions against me;
he counts me as his enemy;(B)
11 he puts my feet in the stocks
and watches all my paths.’(C)
12 “But in this you are not right. I will answer you:
God is greater than any mortal.
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