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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 6. Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips shall answer thee. For because they suppose that the evils of adversity break out in consequence of the erroneousness of confession; they say that 'her own lips shall answer her,' so that fault of utterances should be the cause of the scourge. But sometimes they desire to repress it as if by reasoning.
Thomas Aquinas
So Eliphaz wishes to condemn Job for arguing and he first says that Job had spoken such manifest evil that no other reproof is necessary. His very words themselves show his evil intent. He expresses this saying, "Your mouth will condemn you and not I, and your lips will answer for you," as if to say: Your words need no other answer but they destroy themselves.
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