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
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I …
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the …
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that …
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job …