Job 9:20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

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.

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

Job 14:17

my transgression 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 empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job 4:17

‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?

Job 9:15

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

Job 9:2

“Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?

Job 9:28

I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

Job 9:29

I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Proverbs 17:20

The crooked of mind do not prosper, and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.