Job 9:21

Job chapter 9 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

v.20Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

v.21This passage

v.22It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?