Job 9:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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 7:15-16 : 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall 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 is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely 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 test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 For if 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 I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

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

  • Job 9:22
    78%

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

  • Job 9:27-31
    5 verses
    73%

    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

    28I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

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

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

    31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
    73%

    16I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

  • Job 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15If 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 9:15
    71%

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

  • Job 9:35
    71%

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

  • Job 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, 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%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

    24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

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

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

  • Job 42:6
    70%

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

  • Ps 18:23
    70%

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

  • Job 13:14-15
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    70%

    14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

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

  • Job 31:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

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

    7If 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 7:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20I 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?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    70%

    5God forbid that I should justify you: until I die I will not renounce my integrity.

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

  • Job 13:19
    70%

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

  • Job 9:2
    70%

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

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

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

  • Job 10:19-20
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    70%

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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

  • Job 34:32
    69%

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

  • Ps 73:16
    69%

    16When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • Ps 139:23
    69%

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

  • Job 10:7
    69%

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

  • Job 9:11
    69%

    11Lo, He passes by me, and I see Him not: He goes by also, but I do not perceive Him.

  • Job 19:27
    69%

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

  • Job 21:4
    68%

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

  • Job 23:7
    68%

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

  • Ps 101:2
    68%

    2I will conduct myself wisely in a blameless way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

  • Ps 39:4
    68%

    4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; so I may know how frail I am.

  • Job 31:29
    68%

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

  • Job 7:11
    68%

    11Therefore I will not refrain 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 have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

  • Job 42:3
    68%

    3Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.