If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
WEB
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
YLT
If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.
DBT
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.