Job 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Though I am blameless, I regard not myself; I despise my life.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

Common English Bible

²¹ I’m blameless, yet don’t know myself; I reject my life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.

Job 9:21 Cross References

Job 1:1

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Proverbs 28:26

Those who trust in their own wits are fools, but those who walk in wisdom come through safely.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

1 John 3:20

whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 9:15

Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal to my accuser for my right.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.

Job 13:18

I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.