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.”
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.
Cross-References
“Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.”
“If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
“But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?”
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.”