Job 9:21 · KJV
“{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.”
— Job 9:21
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9 — Context
If {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.
23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Cross References
Psalms 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name {was} Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Job 7:21
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}.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. {know: or, I am not conscious of any fault}
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}