Job 9:20

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Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

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  • Job 34:35 : 35 Job speaks without knowledge, and his words lack insight.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 So these three men stopped answering Job because he considered himself righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, from the family of Ram, became very angry. His anger burned against Job for justifying himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words. 9 'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.' 10 But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths. 12 But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man. 13 Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and turned away from evil.
  • Job 4:17 : 17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Job opens his mouth with empty words; without knowledge, he multiplies his speech.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If You, LORD, keep a record of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but the one who restrains his lips is wise.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 A crooked heart will not find good, and the one with a deceitful tongue will fall into trouble.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe to me! For I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you, on the Day of Judgment, people will give an account for every idle word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But wishing to justify himself, he asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to also control his whole body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:21-22
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    21Though I am blameless, I do not even understand myself; I despise my life.

    22It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

  • Job 9:19
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    19If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

  • Job 19:4-5
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    4Even if I have gone astray, my error remains with me.

    5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • Job 34:5-6
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    5For Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.'

    6Though I am innocent, I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I have committed no offense.

  • Job 13:18-19
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    18See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated.

    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5Far be it from me to justify you. Until my dying breath, I will not set aside my integrity.

    6I will hold on to my righteousness and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt.

    15If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery.

  • Job 9:28-30
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    73%

    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

    30Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap,

  • Job 40:8
    73%

    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • Job 31:5-7
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    5If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried to deceit,

    6let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.

    7If my steps have turned from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if any stain has clung to my hands,

  • Job 33:9
    73%

    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

  • Job 9:15
    73%

    15Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 15:6
    73%

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    72%

    24I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from iniquity.

  • Ps 18:23
    72%

    23All His judgments are before me, and I have not turned away from His statutes.

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

  • Job 6:29-30
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    29Relent, let there be no injustice; yes, relent, my righteousness still stands.

    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern disaster?

  • Job 9:2
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    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • Job 10:2
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    2I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • Prov 8:8
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    8All the words of my mouth are righteous; none of them are twisted or perverse.

  • Ps 7:3
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    3Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

  • Job 9:35
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    35Then I would speak without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

  • Job 36:3-4
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    3I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

    4For truly, my words are not false; the one with complete knowledge is with you.

  • Job 11:4
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    4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 13:15
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    15Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • Job 7:20
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    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • Job 33:27
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    27They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.'

  • Job 34:32
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    32'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

  • Ps 26:11
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    11But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

  • Isa 50:8
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    8He who vindicates me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us face each other. Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.

  • Job 10:7
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    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • Job 33:32
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    32If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

  • Prov 11:5
    69%

    5The righteousness of the blameless makes their path straight, but the wicked fall because of their own wickedness.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me at night. You have refined me and found no evil. I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.