TheWay BibleJob 9:22 KJV
Job · chapter 9 · verse 22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.Job 9:22 · King James Version
Job 9:22 in context
20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21Though 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?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- destroyethkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- perfecttâmcompleteH8535 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-24