Job 9:20

If Y wole make me iust, my mouth schal dampne me; if Y schal schewe me innocent, he schal preue me a schrewe.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

In Context

19If strengthe is souyt, `he is moost strong; if equyte of doom is souyt, no man dar yelde witnessynge for me.

21Yhe, thouy Y am symple, my soule schal not knowe this same thing; and it schal anoye me of my lijf.

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Cross References

Job 4:17Whether a man schal be maad iust in comparisoun of God? ethir whethir a man schal be clennere than his Makere?

Job 9:28Y drede alle my werkis, witynge that thou `woldist not spare the trespassour.

Job 10:15And if Y was wickid, wo is to me; and if Y was iust, Y fillid with turment and wretchidnesse `schal not reise the heed.

Job 15:5For wickidnesse hath tauyt thi mouth, and thou suest the tunge of blasfemeris.

Job 32:1Forsothe these thre men leften of to answere Joob, for he semyde a iust man to hem.

Job 34:35Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng.

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