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Job 9:21
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
Job 9:21 · World English 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 do not regard myself. I despise my life.
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In context
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
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