Verse 21

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was ; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Prov 28:26 : 26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
  • Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.