Verse 6: 'Your own mouth shall condemn you, and not I; and your lips shall answer against you.' 31. They rave that the confession of right faith is punished by the scourges of adversity. — Because they suppose that the evils of adversity break forth from the error of confession, they assert that his lips answer against him, so that the fault of his speech is the cause of the scourge. Sometimes indeed they wish to restrain it, reasoning as it were. Whence Eliphaz endeavours to reprove blessed Job as though from reason, saying: