Job 9:22 It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

English Standard Version
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

New American Standard Bible
"It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.'

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is all the same. Therefore I say, "He destroys both the blameless and the wicked."

International Standard Version
I say it's all the same— he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.

American Standard Version
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Darby Bible Translation
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Young's Literal Translation
It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

Cross References

Job 10:3
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 10:7
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.

Job 10:8
Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.

Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:22-24 Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute. His friends maintained that those who are righteous and good, always prosper in this world, and that none but the wicked are in misery and distress: he said, on the contrary, that it is a common thing for the wicked to prosper, and the righteous to be greatly afflicted. Yet there is too much passion in what Job here says, for God doth not afflict willingly. When the spirit is heated with dispute or with discontent, we have need to set a watch before our lips.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).