Job 9:20 Cross References - Webster

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.

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

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

⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yes, thy own lips testify against thee.

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 kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

⁸ Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, ⁹ I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. ¹⁰ Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, ¹¹ He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. ¹³ Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

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

¹⁶ Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

³ If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

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

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

²⁰ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

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 to you, That for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

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

¹⁵ And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth 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 pursue, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended by 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 forward to those things which are before, ¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God will reveal even this to you.

⁵ Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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