Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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In Context
19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Cross References
Job 4:17Shall 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 be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you mine affliction;
Job 15:5For your mouth utters yours iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 34:35Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were 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 →