Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
In Context
22It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 7:21And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
1 Corinthians 4:4for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:15-22
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall… Read the whole commentary →