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20 Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me;
even though I am blameless, yet[a] it would pronounce me guilty.
21 “I am blameless; I do not care about myself;[b]
I loathe my life.
22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:20 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 9:21 Perhaps the meaning is “but it makes no difference to me” (NLT)

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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