Job 9:20

World English Bible (2000)

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:35 : 35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 So these three men ceased to answer 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. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying, 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. 10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.' 12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from 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 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one 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, Yahweh of Armies!"
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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    5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

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    18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

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  • Job 10:14-15
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  • Job 9:28-30
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    9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

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    15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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    6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Jer 2:35
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    35 "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

  • Job 6:29-30
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    29 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

    30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

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    2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

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    15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

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    3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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    4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

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    15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

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    32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

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    8 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

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    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who 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 will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.