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Job 9:21
[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:21 · Webster 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 will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22 This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?
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