"Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you." Eliphaz refuses the role of accuser; he claims that Job is self-condemned. His speeches are his own indictment. This rhetorical move absolves the friends of cruelty by attributing the judgment to Job himself. Yet it is precisely the friends' pressure that compels Job's words, so the move is specious.

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