Job 9:21
19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- KJV
- Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- WEB
- I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
- ASV
- I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
- DARBY
- Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- BLB
- I [am] blameless; I do not know my soul; I despise my life.
- ÅB
- Skyldløs er jeg; jeg bryr meg ikke om å leve - jeg forakter mitt liv.
- OTB
- Jeg er skyldfri, men jeg bryr meg ikke om meg selv;
jeg forakter mitt liv. - B1930
- Skyldløs er jeg; jeg bryr mig ikke om å leve - jeg forakter mitt liv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Read in contextPsalms 139:23–24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Read in contextJob 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Read in contextProverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:9–10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Read in contextJob 7:15–16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Read in context1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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