Job 9:20 Cross References - BSB

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

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.

¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

² “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

⁵ For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

¹ So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 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,

⁸ Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words: ⁹ ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy. ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’ ¹² Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. ¹³ Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

³⁵ ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’

¹⁶ So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

³ If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

² Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

¹⁹ When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

²⁰ The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.

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.”

³⁶ But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. ³⁷ For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

²⁹ But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

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.

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. 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, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. 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.

⁵ and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

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.