Job 9:22

Job 9:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
• New International Version (NIV)It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)It is all one thing; Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’

Context of Job 9:22

20I am right. I have not done anything that is wrong. But my words would say that I am guilty. 21I have not done anything that is wrong. But it does not matter what happens to me. My life is not important to me. The same thing happens to good people and to wicked people. So I say, “God destroys people who are not guilty as well as those who are guilty.” 23When disease comes, people may die suddenly. God laughs at good people who suffer like that. 24A wicked man may have power to rule a nation. Then God stops the judges from being fair. It must be God who does that. Who else could it be?

Job 9:22 word by word

אַחַ֗ת הִ֥יא עַל־כֵּ֥ן אָמַ֑רְתִּי תָּ֥ם וְ֝רָשָׁ֗ע ה֣וּא מְכַלֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• therefore I saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• He destroyethכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: destroyH3615
• the perfectתָּםtâm · completeH8535
• and the wickedרָשָׁעrâshâ‛ · wickedH7563

Cross-references for Job 9:22

• Ecclesiastes 9:1I thought about all these things so that I could understand them. I realized that God controls what happens to people. That includes righteous people and wise people. God decides the things that they do. Nobody knows what will happen in their lives. Other people may love them, or they may hate them.
• Ezekiel 21:3Say to them, “This is what the Lord says: I am now your enemy. I will take my sword in my hand. I will use it to kill both righteous people and wicked people.
• Luke 13:2Jesus replied, ‘Think about those people from Galilee. Perhaps you think that they had done more bad things than other people from Galilee. Do you think that is why they had to die?

Commentaries on Job 9:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22This 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22This is one thing, therefore I said it - This may mean, “it is all the same thing. It makes no difference whether a man be righteous or wicked. God treats them substantially alike; he has one and the same rule on the subject. Nothing can be argued certainly about the character of a man from the divine dealings with him here.” This was the point in dispute, this the position that Job maintained - that God did not deal with people here in strict accordance…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-24Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-35Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case. It includes: A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32). The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20). A "mediator" (9:33–34). A question of accusation (9:12). A legal sentence (9:22). A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. 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).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 9:22

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Doubting
• God

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Commentaries on Job 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings