Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Suis-je juste, ma bouche me condamnera; Suis-je innocent, il me déclarera coupable.
KJV
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, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
feriuntur. Nix, desiderium coeleste, ut in Job: «Si lotus fuero aquis * vivis [Note: [Col. 1005] 33 Job. IX, 20.] ,» id est, si [Col. 1007A] mundus fuero effectus desiderii coelestis compunctionibus. Noctua est mens fallax, ut in Lege: «Noctuam et accipitrem non comedetis […
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)
«Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me. Si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit (Job IX, 20) . Aut quid respondebit mihi, cum ipse fecerit, id est quam rationem mihi reddet de his quae patior, cum ipse conditor meus sit, qui me vel affligit vel affligi permitt…
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