Job 9:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me. If I were guiltless, it will 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.

Job 9:20 Tagairtí Cros

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. Now that man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Job 10:15

If I am guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction.

Job 14:17

my transgression will be sealed in a bundle and cover over my iniquity.

Job 34:35

‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words lack understanding.’

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth with nonsense, without knowledge he multiplies words.”

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?

Job 9:15

Even if I were right, I would not answer; I would implore the mercy of my Judge.

Job 9:2

“Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?

Job 9:28

I still dread all my pains, for I know You will not find me innocent.

Job 9:29

If I am condemned— why should I struggle in vain?

Psalm 130:3

If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.

Proverbs 10:19

When words abound, transgression is unavoidable. but whoever restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 17:20

A perverse heart finds nothing good a devious tongue falls into trouble.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”

Luke 10:29

But wanting to vindicate himself, he said to Yeshua, “Then who is my neighbor?”

Luke 16:15

But He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before the people, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable in God’s sight.”

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.