Job 9:20 Cross References - KJ2000

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?

⁵ For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.

¹ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. ² Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath aroused, because he justified himself rather than God.

⁸ Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ⁹ I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy, ¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man. ¹³ Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.

³⁵ Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

¹⁶ Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

³ If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

² And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

²⁰ He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

⁵ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

²⁹ But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

¹⁵ And he said unto them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

¹² Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if indeed I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, ¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as would be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

⁵ Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.

² For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.