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

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

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

“ Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.You say,‘ I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’“ Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.Why do you contend against him, saying,‘ He will answer none of man’s words’?

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

And I said:“ Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

“ Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

And he said to them,“ You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus,“ And who is my neighbor?”

and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

‘ Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?