Verse 20

If I will iustifie my selfe, myne owne mouth shall condempne me: if I will put foorth my selfe for a perfect man, he shall proue me a wicked doer.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:35 : 35 Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neither were his wordes according to wysdome.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie. 6 Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 So these three men ceassed to aunswere Iob, because he held him selfe a righteous man. 2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes: 9 I am cleane without any fault, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me. 10 But lo, he hath piked a quarell against me, and taketh me for his enemie. 11 He hath put my foote in the stockes, and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes. 12 Behold, in this hast thou not done right, I wil make aunswere vnto thee, that God is greater then man. 13 And why doest thou then striue against him? for he shall not geue the accomptes of all his wordes.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill.
  • Job 4:17 : 17 Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 I knowe it is so of a trueth: For how may a man compared vnto God be iustified?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine, & he maketh many wordes without knowledge.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou O God wylt marke what is done amisse: O Lorde who can abide it?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into iudgement with thy seruaunt: for in thy syght no man lyuyng can be iustified.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then sayd I, Wo is me, for I am lost, in as much as I am a man of vncleane lippes, and dwell among people that hath vncleane lippes also: for mine eyes haue seene the kyng the Lorde of hoastes.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 But I say vnto you, of euery idell worde that men shall speake, they shall geue accompt therof, in the day of iudgment. 37 For of thy wordes, thou shalt be iustified: and of thy wordes, thou shalt be condemned.
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, wyllyng to iustifie hym selfe, said vnto Iesus: and who is my neighbour?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he sayde vnto them, Ye are they which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes. For that which is hyghly esteemed among men, is abhominable in the syght of God.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not as though I had alredy attayned, either were alredy perfect: but I folowe, yf that I may comprehende, wherein also I am comprehended of Christe Iesus. 13 Brethren I count not my selfe as yet that I haue attained: but this one thing I say I forget those thinges which are behynde, and endeuour my selfe vnto those thynges which are before, 14 And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus. 15 Let vs therfore as many as be perfect, be thus mynded, and if ye be otherwyse mynded, God shall reueale the same also vnto you.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Uayne disputations of men of corrupte myndes, destitute of the trueth, thynkyng lucre to be godlynesse. From suche be thou separate.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body.