Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
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21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 34:35‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
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 →