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## Job 9:20-22 in Context (Verses 17–25 KJV)
 
 [17 ](/kjv/job/9/17) For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/job/9/18) He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/job/9/19) If *I speak* of strength, lo, *he is* strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time *to plead*?
 
 [20 ](/kjv/job/9/20) If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: *if I say*, I *am* perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/job/9/21) *Though* I *were* perfect, *yet* would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/job/9/22) This *is* one *thing*, therefore I said *it*, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/job/9/23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/job/9/24) 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?
 
 [25 ](/kjv/job/9/25) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
 
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