Job 9:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, He would prove me perverse.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

Common English Bible

²⁰ If I’m innocent, my mouth condemns me; I have integrity; but God declares me perverse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.

Job 9:20 Cross References

Job 1:1

There was a man in the country of Uz  named Job.  He was a man of complete integrity,  who feared God and turned away from evil.

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of  my affliction.

Job 14:17

My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

Job 34:35

‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.’

Job 35:16

Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? ’

Job 9:15

Even if I were in the right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Job 9:2

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true, but how can a person be justified before God?

Job 9:28

I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me.

Job 9:29

Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

Proverbs 10:19

When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 17:20

One with a twisted mind will not succeed, and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: Woe is me,  for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself,  he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour? ’

Luke 16:15

And he told them, ‘You are the ones who justify   yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts.   For what is highly admired by people is revolting   in God’s sight.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.  ,

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways.  If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.