KJVIf I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. IX. In this and the following chapter we have Job's answer to Bildad's discourse, wherein he speaks honourably of God, humbly of himself, and feelingly of his troubles; but not one word by way of reflection upon his friends, or their unkindness to him, nor in…