Verse 20

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:35 : 35 Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. 6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
  • Job 32:1-2 : 1 And these three men cease from answering Job, for he `is' righteous in his own eyes, 2 and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear: 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity. 10 Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him, 11 He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.' 12 Lo, `in' this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man. 13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?
  • Job 1:1 : 1 A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
  • Job 4:17 : 17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 And Job `with' vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; 13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth -- 14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;