22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
22 It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
22 Since either way it ends up the same, I can only conclude that God destroys the good right along with the bad.
22 It is all one thing; Therefore I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the wicked.'
22 Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God. That's why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 9:22
Commentary on Job 9:22-24
(Read Job 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.