Job 9:20
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
21Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall [mortal] man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
Job 9:28I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 10:15If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;
Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 32:1And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 34:35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
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 →