The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 21

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

King James Version

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

American Standard Version

I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

New English Translation

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

World English Bible

I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.

This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

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?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.