Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for wh
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning e
When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; fo
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a