Job 9:22 · KJV
“This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.”
— Job 9:22
{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9 — Context
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, {and} who {is} he?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}
Ezekiel 21:3-4
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I {am} against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Luke 13:2-4
And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
Job 10:8
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. {have...: Heb. took pains about me}