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20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.

21 If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.

22 ¶ One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

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20 Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
    if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.(A)

21 “Although I am blameless,(B)
    I have no concern for myself;(C)
    I despise my own life.(D)
22 It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(E)

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