Job 9:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 Hosts!"
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:21-22
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    85%

    21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

    22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

  • Job 9:19
    78%

    19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

  • Job 19:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    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 34:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

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

    6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

  • Job 13:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Prov 20:9
    74%

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

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    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 10:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    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 9:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    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,

  • Job 40:8
    73%

    8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • Job 31:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5 "If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

    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 33:9
    73%

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

  • Job 9:15
    73%

    15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 23:7
    73%

    7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 15:6
    73%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    72%

    24 I was also perfect toward him; I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Ps 18:23
    72%

    23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Jer 2:35
    72%

    35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

  • Job 6:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    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?

  • Job 9:2
    71%

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

  • Ps 73:15
    71%

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

  • Job 10:2
    71%

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

  • 1 Cor 4:4
    71%

    4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • Prov 8:8
    71%

    8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

  • Ps 7:3
    71%

    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

  • Job 9:35
    71%

    35 Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.

  • Job 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

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

    4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

  • Job 11:4
    70%

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

  • Job 13:15
    70%

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

  • Job 7:20
    70%

    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?

  • Job 33:27
    70%

    27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.

  • Job 34:32
    70%

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

  • Ps 26:11
    70%

    11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

  • Isa 50:8
    70%

    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.

  • Job 10:7
    70%

    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • Job 33:32
    70%

    32 If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.

  • Prov 11:5
    69%

    5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • Ps 17:3
    69%

    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.

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