Job 9 · Verse 22

Job 9:22

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 other translations

BSBIt is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
WEB“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
ASVIt is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
YLTIt is the same thing, therefore I said, ‘The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
DARBYIt is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
BBEIt is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
WebsterThis is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

What does Job 9:22 mean?

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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 This is one thing - My own observation shows, that in the course of providence the righteous and the wicked have an equal lot; for when any sudden calamity comes, the innocent and the guilty fall alike. There may be a few exceptions, but they are very extraordinary, and very rare.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 9:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַחַ֗ת'a.Chat[is] oneH259
הִ֥יאhi'itH1931
עַל\־'al-there-H5921
כֵּ֥ןken-foreH3651
אָמַ֑רְתִּי'a.Mar.tiI sayH559
תָּ֥םtam[the] blamelessH8535
וְ֝רָשָׁ֗עve.ra.Sha'and [the] wickedH7563
ה֣וּאhu'heH1931
מְכַלֶּֽה\׃me.kha.Leh[is] bringing to an endH3615

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 9:22

  • 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. 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 sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • Job 10:8

    Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

  • 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. Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

  • Luke 13:2-4

    And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He destroyeth.
Ec 9:1-3; Eze 21:3,4; Lu 13:2-4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 9:21

    Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

  • Job 9:22

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

  • Job 9:23

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

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Job 9:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Una cosa resta que yo diga: Al perfecto y al impío él los consume.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tout revient au même; c’est pourquoi j’ai dit: Il consume le parfait et le méchant.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Darum sage ich: Den Vollkommenen und den Gesetzlosen vernichtet er.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Unum est quod locutus sum: et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.