Job 9:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:35 : 35 Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying] , 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me: 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy: 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths. 12 Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man. 13 Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
  • Job 4:17 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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    21I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

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    19If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?

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    4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

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    5For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

    6Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.

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    18Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

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    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

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  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

    15If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

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    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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    8Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

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    5If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

    6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

    7If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

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    9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

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    15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

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    7There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  • Job 6:29-30
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    29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

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    2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

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    15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

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    2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

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    4For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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    3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

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    35Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.

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    3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

    4For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

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    4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

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    15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

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    20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

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    27He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

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    32That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

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    8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

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    7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

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    32If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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    5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    3Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.