Job 9:20
If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,—I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
19If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?
21I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Job 9:28I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent.
Job 10:15If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.
Job 15:5For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to respond to Job, because, he, was righteous in their eyes.
Job 34:35Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.
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 →