Job 9:20

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Summary

Job 9:20

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Justify

Luke 16:15

Mine

James 3:2

I am perfect

Job 1:1

Philippians 3:12

It shall

Job 33:8

Proverbs 17:20

1 Timothy 6:5

Bible References

Justify

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'

These three men stopped responding to Job, because he was claiming to be righteous, in his own opinion.

LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

Mine

Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything."

Transgression is at work where people talk too much, but anyone who holds his tongue is prudent.

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

I tell you, on Judgment Day people will give an account for every thoughtless word they have uttered,

For all of us make many mistakes. If someone does not make any mistakes when he speaks, he is perfect and able to control his whole body.

I am perfect

There once was a man in the land of Uz named Job. The man was blameless as well as upright. He feared God and kept away from evil.

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

It shall

"You spoke clearly so I could hear; I've heard what you've said:

The person whose mind is perverse does not find good, and anyone with perverted speech falls into trouble.

and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.