Job 9:22
It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
In Context
21Perfect I am! — I know not my soul, I despise my life.
23If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
Cross References
Job 10:8Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
Ecclesiastes 9:1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole [is] before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This [is] an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event [is] to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart during their life, and after it — unto the dead.
Ezekiel 21:9'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also 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 →