Job 9:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Job 9:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
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. …
Job 10:8
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-24)

Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress; he asserted, on the contrary, that it is a common thing for the wicked to prosper and the righteous to be greatly afflicted. This is the one thing, the chief thing, wherein he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. one thing--“It is all one; whether perfect or wicked--He destroyeth.” This was the point Job maintained against his friends, that the righteous and wicked alike are afflicted, and that great sufferings here do not prove great guilt (Lu 13:1-5; Ec 9:2).