Job 9:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would 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 eschewed evil.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; 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 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, 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 desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

    20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

  • Job 9:22
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    22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, 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 leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

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

    29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

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

    31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
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    16 I loathe it; 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 will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

  • Job 9:15
    71%

    15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 9:35
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    35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

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

    10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:9
    71%

    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 upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Prov 20:9
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    9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

  • Job 42:6
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    6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

    15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • Job 31:6-7
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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 mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

  • Job 7:20-21
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    70%

    20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against 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 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove 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.

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • Job 9:2
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    2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should 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:

  • Job 10:19-20
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    19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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    32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

  • Ps 73:16
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    16 When I thought to 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 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

  • Job 9:11
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    11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

  • Job 19:27
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    27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

  • Job 21:4
    68%

    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • Ps 101:2
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    2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

  • Ps 39:4
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    4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

  • Job 31:29
    68%

    29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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    68%

    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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    68%

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

  • Job 42:3
    68%

    3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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