KJV:
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
NASB:
"Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.
KJV:
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
NASB:
If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
KJV:
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
NASB:
"Shall a multitude of words go unanswered, And a talkative man be acquitted?
KJV:
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
NASB:
"Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated.
KJV:
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
NASB:
"What is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
KJV:
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
NASB:
"Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, Or profit if you make your ways perfect?
KJV:
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
NASB:
"How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
KJV:
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
NASB:
"Far be it from me that I should declare you right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
KJV:
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
NASB:
But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.