Job 9:21

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Though I am blameless, I do not even understand myself; I despise my life.

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  • 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 7:15-16 : 15 I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine. 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
  • Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable—who can understand it? 10 I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

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  • Job 9:19-20
    2 verses
    85%

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

    20Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

  • Job 9:22
    78%

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

  • Job 9:27-31
    5 verses
    73%

    27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

    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,

    31You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
    73%

    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    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 9:15
    71%

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

  • Job 9:35
    71%

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

  • Job 6:9-10
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    71%

    9That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:9
    71%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

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

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

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

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

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

  • Job 42:6
    70%

    6Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

  • Ps 18:23
    70%

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

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

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

  • Job 31:6-7
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    70%

    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 7:20-21
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    70%

    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?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    70%

    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 13:19
    70%

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

  • Job 9:2
    70%

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

  • 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 10:19-20
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    19If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 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 73:16
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    16When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply.

  • Ps 139:23
    69%

    23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  • Job 10:7
    69%

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

  • Job 9:11
    69%

    11Behold, He passes by me, and I do not see Him; He moves on, and I do not perceive Him.

  • Job 19:27
    69%

    27Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

  • Job 21:4
    68%

    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Job 23:7
    68%

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

  • Ps 101:2
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    2I will act wisely and follow the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will live with integrity in my heart within my house.

  • Ps 39:4
    68%

    4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

  • Job 31:29
    68%

    29If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him—

  • Job 7:11
    68%

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

  • Eccl 7:23
    68%

    23All this I tested by wisdom and said, 'I will be wise,' but it was beyond me.

  • Job 42:3
    68%

    3You asked, 'Who is this that obscures counsel without knowledge?' Surely, I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.