Job 9:22
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
In Context
21Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
23If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
Cross References
Job 10:8Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.
Ezekiel 21:9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.
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 →