Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
New American Standard Bible
Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.
King James Version
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Holman Bible
if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.
International Standard Version
Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.
A Conservative Version
Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
American Standard Version
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Amplified
“Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty;
Though I am blameless, He would denounce me as guilty.
Bible in Basic English
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall be just, my mouth shall condemn me: I am blameless, and he will declare me perverse.
King James 2000
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.
Modern King James verseion
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer.
NET Bible
Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
New Heart English Bible
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
The Emphasized Bible
If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
Webster
If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
World English Bible
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
Youngs Literal Translation
If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
19 Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time? 20 If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse. 21 Were I perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Cross References
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
Job 9:2
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Job 15:5-6
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 32:1-2
And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 33:8-13
Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words: --
Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
Job 35:16
For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Psalm 130:3
If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.
Proverbs 17:20
He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
Isaiah 6:5
And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
Luke 10:29
But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
Philippians 3:12-15
Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.
James 3:2
For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.