Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I [am] blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe 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.
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!
Webster
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my 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 Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty. 21 "I [am] blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life. 22 It [is all] one; therefore I say, 'He destroys [both the] blameless and [the] wicked.'
Cross References
Job 1:1
[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.
Job 7:15-16
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
Job 7:21
And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but {I will be no more}."
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Proverbs 28:26
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord.
1 John 3:20
that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].