A moment in scripture
Job 9:20
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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.