Job 9:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

Job 9:20 Cross References

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uts, whose name was Iyoḇ. And that man was perfect and straight, and one who feared Elohim and turned aside from evil.

Job 10:15

If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I would not lift up my head – filled with shame and seeing my grief!

Job 14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my crookedness.

Job 34:35

Iyoḇ does not speak with knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.’

Job 35:16

so Iyoḇ opens his mouth in vain, he increases words without knowledge.”

Job 4:17

Is mortal man more righteous than Eloah? Is man more clean than his Maker?

Job 9:15

For though I were righteous, I would not answer Him. I pray to Him for my right-ruling.

Job 9:2

“Truly I know it is so. But how is man right with Elohim?

Job 9:28

I shall be afraid of all my sufferings. I know that You do not hold me innocent.

Job 9:29

If I am wrong, why should I labour in vain?

Psalm 130:3

O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?

Psalm 143:2

And do not enter into right-ruling with Your servant, For before You no one living is in the right.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, Transgression is not absent, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 17:20

He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe to me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips – for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, יהוה of hosts.”

Luke 10:29

But he, wishing to declare himself righteous, said to יהושע, “And who is my neighbour?”

Luke 16:15

so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.

1 Timothy 6:5

worthless disputes of men of corrupt minds and deprived of the truth, who think that reverence is a means of gain – withdraw from such.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body.