Job 9:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
  • Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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

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

  • Job 9:22
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    22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

  • Job 9:27-31
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    27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

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

    29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

    31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
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    16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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

    15 If 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.

  • Job 9:15
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    15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 9:35
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    35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10 And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:9
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    9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

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

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

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    1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

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    6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.

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    23 I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

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    14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

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

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

    7 If 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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    20 If 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?

    21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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

    6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

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    19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

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

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

    5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

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    16 When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

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    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

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

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    11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

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    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

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

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    4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

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    29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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    11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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    23 All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

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    3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.