Job 9:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

If I justify myself, my 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 has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job, because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. 10 Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy; 11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths. 12 Behold, in this you are not just; I will answer you, that God is greater than man. 13 Why do you strive against Him? For He does not give 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 avoided 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 this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, 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 my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account for in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 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 are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

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

    22 This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

  • Job 9:19
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    19 If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

  • Job 19:4-5
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    4 And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.

    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

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

    6 Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

  • Job 13:18-19
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    18 Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

    19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

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

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5 God forbid that I should justify you: until I die I will not renounce my integrity.

    6 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction;

  • Job 9:28-30
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    28 I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

    29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly;

  • Job 40:8
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    8 Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

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

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

    7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

  • Job 33:9
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    9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • Job 9:15
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    15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 15:6
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    6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

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

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

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

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

    30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern perverse things?

  • Job 9:2
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    2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

  • Ps 73:15
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    15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

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

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

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    8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or perverse in them.

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

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    35 Then I would speak and not fear Him; but it is not so with me.

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    3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will attribute righteousness to my Maker.

    4 For truly my words shall not be false: he who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

  • Job 11:4
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    4 For you have said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.'

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    15 Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.

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    20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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    27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;

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

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    11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be merciful to me.

  • Isa 50:8
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    8 He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? Let us stand together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

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    7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

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    32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

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    5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.