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Job 9:21
Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
Job 9:21 · Geneva Bible
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 wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
19 If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
20 If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.
21 Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
23 If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
24 The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?
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