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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.

KJV

Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me ; si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.

Vulgate

ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, τὸ στόμα μου ἀσεβήσει· ἐάν τε ὦ ἄμεμπτος, σκολιὸς ἀποβήσομαι.

LXX

Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

ASV

אִם אֶ֭צְדָּק פִּ֣/י יַרְשִׁיעֵ֑/נִי תָּֽם אָ֝֗נִי וַֽ/יַּעְקְשֵֽׁ/נִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲנִ֥י
'ny
pronoun · 862×
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
הַצְדִּ֣יק
htsdyq
verb · 41×
י
y
noun · 496×
נִי
ny
verb · 36×
עִקְּשׁ֣וּ
'qshv
verb · 5×
תָּ֧ם
tm
adjective · 14×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Job 4:17 — Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
  • Job 9:2 — I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  • Job 9:28 — I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
  • Job 10:15 — If 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 thou mine affliction;
  • Job 13:18 — Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
  • Job 15:5 — For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
  • Job 15:6 — Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Job 32:1 — So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
  • Job 34:35 — Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
  • Luke 18:14 — I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
  • Phil 3:12 — Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
  • Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
  • Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.