Job 9:20

¹⁸ He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

¹⁹ If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him ?

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

²¹ Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

²² It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Sammenlign

ÅB: Hadde jeg enn rett, skulle dog min egen munn dømme meg skyldig; var jeg enn uskyldig, ville han dog si at jeg hadde urett.
OTB: Selv om jeg var rettferdig, ville min egen munn fordømme meg;
hvis jeg var skyldfri, ville den erklære meg skyldig.
B1930: Hadde jeg enn rett, skulde dog min egen munn dømme mig skyldig; var jeg enn uskyldig, vilde han dog si at jeg hadde urett.

BSB: Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
KJV: If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
WEB: Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
ASV: Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
DARBY: If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
BLB: If I were righteous, my own mouth would declare me wicked; if I were blameless, then it would declare me perverse.

Psalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
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Job 34:35
‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
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Job 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
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Psalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
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Philippians 3:12–15
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
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Job 15:5–6
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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Job 32:1–2
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
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