King James Version (KJV)
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.”
Verse in context — Job 9
18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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.
21
[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.
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