Job 9:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Job 34:35 : 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 ¶ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 ¶ Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying], 9 I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me. 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. 12 Behold, [in] this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. 13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
  • 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 4:17 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 ¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 ¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 ¶ Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 ‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.› 37 ‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, ‹Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.›
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 ¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

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    21[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

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

  • Job 19:4-5
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    4And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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  • Job 34:5-6
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    5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

    6Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

  • Job 13:18-19
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    18Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.

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  • Prov 20:9
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  • Job 27:5-6
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    5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

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  • 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.

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  • Job 9:28-30
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    28I 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?

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

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    5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

    6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

    7If 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 33:9
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    9I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.

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

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

  • Job 15:6
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    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

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

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  • Job 6:29-30
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    29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.

    30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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

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    4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

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    35[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

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    4For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

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

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    20I 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?

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    27He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;

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    11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

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    8[He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.

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    7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.

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    32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

  • Prov 11:5
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    5¶ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    3Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.