Holy Scripture
Job 9:20
A church father on this verse
“"If I think I have attained purity in my actions, I will be proved perverse in my words. If I am found blameless in my words, I will be reproached for my actions." In the same manner, if one is righteous in his actions and proclaims that loudly with ostentatious words, his mouth commits impiety, because he has fallen…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
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18For he suffers me not to take breath, But he has filled me with bitterness.
19For indeed he is strong in power: Who then shall resist his judgment?
— Job 9:20 —
21For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: But my life is taken away.
22Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.