Job 9:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.”
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“Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 9:20 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 9:28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
- Job 9:29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
- Job 14:17My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
- Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
- Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 33:8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
- Job 34:35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
- Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
- Proverbs 17:20The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
- Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- Matthew 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
- Luke 10:29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
- Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
- Philippians 3:12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
- 1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
- James 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
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