NET Bible
"I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life."
— Job 9:21, NET Bible
“Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.”
“I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life. ”
“I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.”
“Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.”
“I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.”
“Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.”
He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?