Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
In Context
19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.
21He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Psalms 34:17They cried, and LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
Proverbs 10:9He who walks uprightly walks securely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →