“For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.”
"For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty." Eliphaz suggests that Job's own guilt is expressed through his speech. The tongue reveals the heart; Job's eloquence betrays his wickedness. The verse reflects the friends' conviction that Job's suffering proves his guilt, and his vigorous defense proves his deviousness. He is trapped by their logic: suffering proves guilt, and denying guilt proves corruption.
Church Fathers on Job 15:5
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man answer as if speaking into the wind, and fill his belly with burning? We have already said frequently that blessed Job bears a type of the Holy Church universal, and that his friends bear the likeness of heretics, who as it were on the plea of defence of the Lord find occasion of foolish talking, and let loose insulting words against good men; to whom all is displeasing that is thought by the faithful, as though…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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