New Revised Standard Version
Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Contemporary English Version
Even if I were innocent, God would prove me wrong.

New American Bible
Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, it might put me in the wrong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.

justify

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 4:17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 32:1,2 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself. . . .

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Luke 10:29 But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbour?

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

mine

Job 15:5,6 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers. . . .

Job 34:35 But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not discipline.

Job 35:16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

Proverbs 10:19 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

James 3:2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

I am perfect

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Philippians 3:12-15 Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus. . . .

it shall

Job 33:8-13 Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words: . . .

Proverbs 17:20 He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

1 Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.