Job 9:20
If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
19If it regard strength, lo, he is the powerful; and if justice, who will cite him for me to appear?
21I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.
Cross References
Job 4:17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:28O then would I be in dread of all my pains; I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.
Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction;
Job 15:5For thy iniquity teacheth thy mouth, so that thou choosest the language of the crafty.
Job 32:1So had these three men abstained from answering Job; because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 34:35That Job hath not spoken with knowledge, and that his words are without 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 →