22 This is one point: therefore I said, He destroyeth the [a]perfect and the wicked.

23 If the scourge should suddenly [b]slay, should God [c]laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: [d]he covereth the faces of the judges thereof: if not, where [e]is he? or who is he?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:22 If God punish according to his justice, he will destroy as well them, that are counted perfect as them that are wicked.
  2. Job 9:23 To wit, the wicked.
  3. Job 9:23 This is spoken according to our apprehension, as though he would say, If God destroy but the wicked, as Job 5:3, why should he suffer the innocent to be so long tormented by them?
  4. Job 9:24 That they cannot see to do justice.
  5. Job 9:24 That can show the contrary?

22 It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)
23 When a scourge(B) brings sudden death,
    he mocks the despair of the innocent.(C)
24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,(D)
    he blindfolds its judges.(E)
    If it is not he, then who is it?(F)

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

23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

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