Job 9:22
This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
In Context
21Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
23If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
Cross References
Job 10:8Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
Ecclesiastes 9:1I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.
Ezekiel 21:9Sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, say, A sworde, a sworde both sharpe, and fourbished.
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 →