Job 9:21
I am perfect; I do not know my soul, I despise my life.
Literal Standard Version
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 am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
22It is the same thing, therefore I said, || He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
Job 7:15And my soul chooses strangling, || Death rather than my bones.
Job 7:21You do not take away my transgression, || And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, || Because now, I lie down in dust, || And You have sought me—and I am not!”
Proverbs 28:26Whoever is trusting in his heart is a fool, || And whoever is walking in wisdom is delivered.
1 Corinthians 4:4for I have been conscious of nothing for myself, but I have not been declared right in this—and He who is discerning 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 →