Job 9:20 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”

Job 9:20

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He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

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Job 9:1

"Then Job answered and said,"

Job 9:2

"I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}"

Job 9:3

"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."

Job 9:4

"{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?"

Job 9:5

"Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger."

Job 9:6

"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."

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