Job 9:21

World English Bible (2000)

I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 7:15-16 : 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. 24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
  • Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 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 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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

  • Job 9:22
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    22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

  • Job 9:27-31
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    27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

    29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

    31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 7:16
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    16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

  • Job 9:15
    71%

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

  • Job 9:35
    71%

    35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:9
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    9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

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

  • Prov 20:9
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    9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

  • Job 42:6
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    6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

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

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

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

  • Job 31:6-7
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    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, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Job 9:2
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    2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

  • Job 19:4-5
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    4 If it is true that 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
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    19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 34:32
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    32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • Ps 73:16
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    16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • Ps 139:23
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    23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

  • Job 10:7
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    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • Job 9:11
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    11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

  • Job 19:27
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    27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

  • Job 21:4
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    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

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

  • Ps 101:2
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    2 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

  • Ps 39:4
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    4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

  • Job 31:29
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    29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • Job 7:11
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    11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. 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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    23 All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

  • Job 42:3
    68%

    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.