Job 9:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

    20If 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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    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

    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;

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

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    16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

  • Job 10:14-15
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  • Job 9:15
    71%

    15Whom, 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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    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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

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    24I was also upright before him, and have 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 leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

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    23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

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    70%

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

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

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