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Job 9:21
I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
Job 9:21 · American Standard Version
Job 9:21 in other translations
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
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In context
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
19 If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who, saith he, will summon me?
20 Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
21 I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If it be not he, who then is it?
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