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20 Though I’m in the right, my own mouth will condemn me;
    though I’m blameless, he’ll pronounce me as guilty.

21 “I’m blameless;
    I don’t know myself;
        I despise my life.
22 I say it’s all the same—
    he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.[a]

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  1. Job 9:22 Or wicked

20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also 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.

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