“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”
Job notes that even if he were righteous, his own mouth would condemn him, and even if he were blameless, it would prove him perverse, suggesting that he cannot vindicate himself through speech. The paradox is that speaking either condemns or proves perverse; silence also proves guilt. There is no position from which Job can assert his innocence.
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