Job 9:20

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.”

— WEB

“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”

— KJV

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

— ASV

Psalms 143:2 "Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous."
Psalms 130:3 "If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?"
Job 9:2 "“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?"
Job 4:17 "‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?"
Job 15:5-6 "For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty."
Job 32:1-2 "So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes."
Philippians 3:12-15 "Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hol…"
Job 34:35 "‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’"

it-- (Job 15:6; Luk 19:22); or "He," God.

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