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%

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

    20 If 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%

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

  • Job 9:27-31
    5 verses
    73%

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

    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;

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

  • Job 7:16
    73%

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

  • Job 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    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 9:15
    71%

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

  • Job 9:35
    71%

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

  • Job 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10 Then 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%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

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

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

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

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    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 to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

  • Job 42:6
    70%

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

  • Ps 18:23
    70%

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

  • Job 13:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

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

    15 Though 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%

    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 7:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    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?

    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.

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    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 13:19
    70%

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

  • Job 9:2
    70%

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

  • Job 19:4-5
    2 verses
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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 10:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    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,

  • Job 34:32
    69%

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

  • Ps 73:16
    69%

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

  • Ps 139:23
    69%

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

  • Job 10:7
    69%

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

  • Job 9:11
    69%

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

  • Job 19:27
    69%

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

  • Job 21:4
    68%

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

  • Job 23:7
    68%

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

  • Ps 101:2
    68%

    2 I 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%

    4 LORD, 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%

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

  • Job 7:11
    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.

  • Eccl 7:23
    68%

    23 All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

  • Job 42:3
    68%

    3 Who 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.

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