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Job 9:20
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Job 9:20
20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
20If I iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prooue me peruerse.
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Job 9:20
To declare or account righteous; to acquit, vindicate, or show to be right.
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A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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To pronounce guilty or wrong; to sentence, judge against, disapprove, or doom.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.
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Literally, turned aside; hence, distorted from the right.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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Open the full verse study1SO these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
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Open the full verse study35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
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Open the full verse study17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Open the full verse study2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Open the full verse study12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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Open the full verse study3If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
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Open the full verse study2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
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Open the full verse study5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
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Open the full verse study5¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
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Open the full verse study1THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
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Open the full verse study8Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
12Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
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Open the full verse study16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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Open the full verse study29But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
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Open the full verse study15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
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Open the full verse study36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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Open the full verse study19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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Open the full verse study20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
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