Job 9:21

In 11 translations

BSB

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

KJV

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

WEB

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

ASV

I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

LSV

I am perfect; I do not know my soul, I despise my life.

YLT

Perfect I am! — I know not my soul, I despise my life.

DBY

Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

DRC

Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.

GNV

Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.

JPS

I am innocent — I regard not myself, I despise my life.

LXXE

For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

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Original-language editions

WLC

תָּֽם־אָ֭נִי לֹֽא־אֵדַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֗י אֶמְאַ֥ס חַיָּֽי׃

LXX-Br

Εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
• Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
• Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
• Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
• 1 Corinthians 4:4My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
• Job 7:15–16so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• 1 John 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
• Jeremiah 17:9–10The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

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