Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life.
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- Psalms 139:23–24Rank 2 from verse 21
23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
23Search me, O God, and knowe my heart: trie mee, and knowe my thoughts:
24†And see if there bee any wicked way in me: and leade me in the way euerlasting.
- 1 Corinthians 4:4Rank 3 from verse 21
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
21And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be.
- Proverbs 28:26Rank 5 from verse 21
- 1 John 3:20Rank 6 from verse 21
- Jeremiah 17:9–10Rank 7 from verse 21
9¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
9¶ The heart is deceitfull aboue all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?
10*I the LORD search the heart, I try the reines, euen to giue euery man according to his waies, and according to the fruit of his doings.
- Job 7:15–16Rank 8 from verse 21
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Job 9:21
Complete, whole, sound, mature, upright, fully fitted, finished, exact, or lacking nothing required for the person, work, knowledge, state, purpose, or standard in view; to perfect is to bring to that intended completion or maturity.
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1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.
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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.
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To regard with contempt, reject, or esteem lightly.
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The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
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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.
21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life.
Selected passage22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
22This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.