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Job 9:21

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Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

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  1. Job 9:19

    If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

  2. Job 9:20

    If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

  3. Job 9:22

    This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

  4. Job 9:23

    If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.