Job 9:21
Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
In Context
20If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
Job 7:21And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
Proverbs 28:26He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
1 Corinthians 4:4For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the 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 →