Job 9:20–22

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

I am blameless; I regard not myself;

I loathe my life.

It is all one; therefore I say,

‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;

if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.

“Although I am blameless,

I have no concern for myself;

I despise my own life.

It is all the same; that is why I say,

‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

Though I am blameless,

I no longer care about myself;

I renounce my life.

It is all the same. Therefore I say,

“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty.

Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.

“I am innocent,

but it makes no difference to me—

I despise my life.

Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God.

That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:

If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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

I would despise my life.

This is one thing, therefore I said it,

He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.