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Job 9:20 Strong Concordance If I justify [06663] myself, mine own mouth [06310] shall condemn [07561] me: if I say, I am perfect [08535], it shall also prove me perverse [06140].
  King James 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
it-- (Job 15:6; Luk 19:22); or "He," God.
 
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22 And [1161] he saith [3004] unto him [846], Out of [1537] thine own [4675] mouth [4750] will I judge [2919] thee [4571], thou wicked [4190] servant [1401]. Thou knewest [1492] that [3754] I [1473] was [1510] an austere [840] man [444], taking up [142] that [3739] I laid [5087] not [3756] down [5087], and [2532] reaping [2325] that [3739] I did [4687] not [3756] sow [4687]:
6 Thine own mouth [06310] condemneth [07561] thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips [08193] testify [06030] against thee.
1 There was a man [0376] in the land [0776] of Uz [05780], whose name [08034] was Job [0347]; and that man [0376] was perfect [08535] and upright [03477], and one that feared [03373] God [0430], and eschewed [05493] evil [07451].