If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
If I justify myself. Maurer translates-`If I were just' - i:e., if I had right on my side х 'etsdaaq (H6663)]. This accords with Job 9:21. So also translate, not as English version, 'If I say I am perfect,' but '(If) I (were) perfect.' it-mine own mouth (Job 15:6). "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant" (Luke 19:22). Or, 'He,' God, 'would prove me perverse.'