If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Gill's Exposition
Though I were perfect,.... Really and truly so, not conscious of any sin in thought, word, or deed; this is only a case supposed:
yet would I not know my soul; I would not own myself to be so before…
Barnes' Notes
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me - That is, referring still to the form of a judicial trial, if I should undertake to manage my own cause, I should lay myself open to condemnation…
What Job had said of man's utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God,…
Cambridge Bible
Were I in the right, mine own mouth would condemn me,
Were I perfect, He would prove me perverse:
In Job 9:9 Job is the speaker; he describes the effect upon him of the might of God, though he had…
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