Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

我虽有义，自己的口要定我为有罪；我虽完全，我口必显我为弯曲。

我虽有义，我的口要定我有罪；我虽完全，他必证明我为弯曲。

我虽有义，我的口要定我有罪；我虽完全，他必证明我为弯曲。

即使我清白无辜，我的口也会认罪；即使我纯全无过，祂也会判我有罪。

即使我有理，我的口还是定我有罪；即使我完全，我的口还是判我乖谬。

我雖有義，自己的口要定我為有罪；我雖完全，我口必顯我為彎曲。

我雖有義，我的口要定我有罪；我雖完全，他必證明我為彎曲。

我雖有義，我的口要定我有罪；我雖完全，他必證明我為彎曲。

即使我清白無辜，我的口也會認罪；即使我純全無過，祂也會判我有罪。

即使我有理，我的口還是定我有罪；即使我完全，我的口還是判我乖謬。

我雖理直，我自己的口必定我為惡；我雖純全，他卻要定我為乖僻。

我雖為義、我口猶罪我、我雖純全、我口猶證我背戾、

如稱己義、則不義矣。如言己善、則不善矣。

我若自辯有義、恐我口罪我、我若自辯無辜、恐我口咎我、恐我口咎我或作恐我口顯我虛詐

Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.

Even if I hadn’t sinned, what I said would prove me guilty. Even if I were honest, my words would show that I’m wrong.

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.

Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.

Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:[ if I say], I[ am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

“ Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.”

Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:“ I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.But he finds reasons to oppose me; he regards me as his enemy.He puts my feet in the stocks; he stands watch over all my paths.”But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter, since God is greater than man.Why do you take him to court for not answering anything a person asks?

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls his lips is prudent.

Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies.

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true, but how can a person be justified before God?

I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

One with a twisted mind will not succeed, and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in your sight.

And he told them,“ You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus,“ And who is my neighbor?”

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

LORD, if you kept an account of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

“ Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?”