Parallel Verses
Webster
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
New American Standard Bible
I do not take notice of myself;
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King James Version
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Holman Bible
I no longer care about myself;
I renounce my life.
International Standard Version
"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life.
A Conservative Version
Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
American Standard Version
I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
Amplified
“[Though] I am blameless,
I do not care about myself;
I despise my life.
Bible in Basic English
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
Darby Translation
Were I perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Julia Smith Translation
I am blameless, I shall not know my soul: I shall despise my life.
King James 2000
Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I [am] blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life.
Modern King James verseion
Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul. I would despise my life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For though I be an innocent, and my conscience clear, yea am I weary of my life.
NET Bible
I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
New Heart English Bible
I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
The Emphasized Bible
I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!
World English Bible
I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
Youngs Literal Translation
Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.
Interlinear
Yada`
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will 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.
Cross References
Job 1:1
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.
Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:
Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemneth us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.