Parallel Verses

NET Bible

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

New American Standard Bible

“I am guiltless;
I do not take notice of myself;
I despise my life.

King James Version

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Holman Bible

Though I am blameless,
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּם 
Tam 
Usage: 13

my soul
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

מאס 
Ma'ac 
Usage: 76

References

Morish

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

20 Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse. 21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life. 22 "It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.'

Cross References

Job 1:1

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

Job 7:15-16

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

Psalm 139:23-24

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

Proverbs 28:26

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

1 John 3:20

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

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