Job 9:21

WEB

²¹I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

KJV

²¹Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

BSB

²¹Though ^[+] I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

FBV

²¹I am innocent! I don't care what happens to me. I hate my life!

Extra References

Psalms 139:23-24

²³Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. ²⁴See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Job 1:1

¹There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, ^[+] and turned away from evil.

1 Corinthians 4:4

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Job 7:21

²¹Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Proverbs 28:26

²⁶One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? ¹⁰“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

1 John 3:20

²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Job 7:15-16

¹⁵so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. ¹⁶I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.