Job 9:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.

Job 10:15

And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.

Job 14:17

You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.

Job 34:35

But Job has been speaking foolishly, and his words contain unsound teaching.

Job 35:16

Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.

Job 4:17

Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 9:15

And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.

Job 9:2

Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

Job 9:28

I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.

Job 9:29

Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?

Psalm 130:3

Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forward and even forever.

Psalm 143:2

My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.

Proverbs 10:19

In a multitude of speaking, sin will not be lacking. But whoever tempers his lips is most prudent.

Proverbs 17:20

Whoever is of a perverse heart shall not find good. And whoever turns his tongue shall fall into evil.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: "Woe to me! For I have remained silent. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people having unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts!"

Luke 10:29

But since he wanted to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

Luke 16:15

And he said to them: "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 6:5

the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.

James 3:2

For we all offend in many ways. If anyone does not offend in word, he is a perfect man. And he is then able, as if with a bridle, to lead the whole body around.