Job 9:20

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

¹⁹ If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment -- who doth convene me? ²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse. ²¹ Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

Perfect Man

Put Forth

Job

No

Job 1:1

A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

Job 4:17

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

Job 9:2

Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

Job 15:5-6

For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

Job 32:1-2

And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes,

Job 33:8-13

Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

Job 34:35

Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.

Job 35:16

And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

Psalm 130:3

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Proverbs 10:19

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

Proverbs 17:20

The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

Isaiah 6:5

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

Matthew 12:36-37

'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

Luke 10:29

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'

Luke 16:15

and he said to them, 'Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

1 Timothy 6:5

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

James 3:2

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;