Job 15:6 — ExegesisTAB

The verse opens with the Hiphil verb yarshi'akha {יַרְשִֽׁיעֲךָ֣ | yaršiʿăḵā} ‘he will declare you guilty’, fronting the judicial outcome before naming the agent. The following subject pikha {פִ֣יךָ | pîḵā} ‘your mouth’ creates a striking personification: Job’s own speech is depicted as the prosecuting force. The maqqef-linked contrast velo-ani {וְלֹא־אָ֑נִי | wə-lō-ʾānî} functions as a parenthetical denial, separating the speaker from the accusation and sharpening the rhetorical thrust: the charge is self-generated, not imposed from outside. A second parallel clause coordinates usefatekha {וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָ | ûśəp̄āṯeḵā} ‘and your lips’ with a plural verb, ya'anu-vakh {יַעֲנוּ־בָֽךְ | yaʿănû-bāḵ} ‘they answer against you’, forming tight poetic parallelism (mouth // lips; declare guilty // answer) that intensifies the idea of self-incrimination through reiterated speech imagery. The prepositional suffix in bāḵ {בָֽךְ | bāḵ} is most naturally adversative in this setting (“against you”), though it can overlap with “concerning you”; the accusatory context favors the hostile sense, so the English rendering keeps an explicitly forensic, adversarial tone.