Job 9:21
I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 1:1 : 1 ¶ I. The Prologue(1:1-2:13)Job’s Good Life There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
- Job 7:15-16 : 15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life. 16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
- Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
- Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns! 24 See if there is any idolatrous way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!
- Prov 28:26 : 26 The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
- Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it? 10 I, the LORD, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
- 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.
- 1 John 3:20 : 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
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- Job 9:19-202 verses85%
19 If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
20 Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
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22 Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
- Job 9:27-315 verses73%
27 If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’
28 I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
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16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
- Job 10:14-152 verses73%
14 If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
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15 Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
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35 Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.
- Job 6:9-102 verses71%
9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
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24 I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.
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9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
- Job 10:1-22 verses70%
1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
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6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
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23 I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.
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14 Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?
15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
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6 let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
7 If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,
- Job 7:20-212 verses70%
20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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5 I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
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19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
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2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
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4 But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
- Job 10:19-202 verses70%
19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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32 Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
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16 When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling to me.
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23 Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
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7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
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11 If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
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27 whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
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4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
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2 I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.
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4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
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29 If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–
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11 Job Remonstrates with God“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.
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23 Human Wisdom is Limited I have examined all this by wisdom; I said,“I am determined to comprehend this”– but it was beyond my grasp.
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3 you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.