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.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. Job agrees that no one can contend with God but despairs because God's power makes a fair hearing impossible. He describes God's cosmic might in establishing heavens and earth while lamenting that the same power that could vindicate him also …
Other Translations
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Cross References
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, …
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job …
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.