Job 9:22
There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
In Context
21And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.
23If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
Cross References
Job 10:8Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?
Ecclesiastes 9:1I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.
Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Speak: The sword! The sword has been sharpened and polished!
Matthew Henry on Job 9:15-22
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall… Read the whole commentary →