Job 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
In Context
21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
23When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Cross References
Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, 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 →