Job 9:20 · KJV
“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”
— Job 9:20
If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9 — Context
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 15:5-6
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {uttereth: Heb. teacheth}
Philippians 3:12-15
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words {were} without wisdom.
Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Job 9:2
I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}
Job 32:1-2
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he {was} righteous in his own eyes. {to...: Heb. from answering}