Job 9:21

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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 9:19-20
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    19If 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?’

    20Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

  • Job 9:22
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    22Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

  • Job 9:27-31
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    27If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

    30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
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    16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

    15If 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.

  • Job 9:15
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    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

  • Job 9:35
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    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

    10Then 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.

  • Job 33:9
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    9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

  • Job 42:6
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    6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

  • Ps 18:23
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    23I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

    15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

  • Job 31:6-7
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    6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

    7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If 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?

    21And 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.”

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

    6I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 9:2
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    2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

  • Job 19:4-5
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    4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • Job 10:19-20
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    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

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

  • Job 34:32
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    32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

  • Ps 73:16
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    16When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling to me.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

  • Job 10:7
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    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Job 9:11
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    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 19:27
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    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • Job 21:4
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    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 23:7
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    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Ps 101:2
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    2I 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.

  • Ps 39:4
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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!

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

  • Job 7:11
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    11Job 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.

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23Human Wisdom is Limited I have examined all this by wisdom; I said,“I am determined to comprehend this”– but it was beyond my grasp.

  • Job 42:3
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    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.