Job 9:20

Were I in the right, mine own mouth would condemn me,

Were I perfect, He would prove me perverse:

In Job 9:20 Job is the speaker; he describes the effect upon him of the might of God, though he had right on his side his own mouth would make him out wrong; out of terror he would speak at random or say the opposite of what he should say. The word perfectis used as in ch. Job 1:1, not in an absolute sense, but to mean upright and free from transgression. The subject in the second clause is more probably God than it, i. e. my mouth; were Job perfect the effect of God's power would be that he would appear perverse or wicked.