If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.(Job 9:20)

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.(Job 9:21)

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.(Job 9:22)

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?(Job 9:24)

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.(Job 9:25)

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.(Job 9:26)

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Job 9:23 - Cross Reference

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 21:13)

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: (Hebrews 11:36)

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (Job 1:13)

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. (Psalm 44:22)

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: (Job 8:20)

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? (Job 4:7)

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. (Job 24:12)

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (Job 2:7)

Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: (Ezekiel 14:19)

Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee. (2 Samuel 14:17)

Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid. (2 Samuel 14:15)