OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Job 9:21

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I am blameless.

I don’t respect myself.

I despise my life.

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Job 9:21 in context

Job 9:18–24

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
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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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