Job 9:20

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Job 9:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

19 If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him ?

20 Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

21 Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

22 It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Job 9:2

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 32:1

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 32:2

This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

Psalms 130:3

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 16:15

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Job 34:35

‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Matthew 12:36

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:37

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 3:2

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Philippians 3:13

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:15

All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.

Job 33:8

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

Job 33:9

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Job 33:10

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

Job 33:11

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

Job 33:12

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Proverbs 17:20

The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.