Job 9:22

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 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. 2 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. 3 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.
  • Ezek 21:3-4 : 3 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. 4 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 : 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 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?
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

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  • Job 9:23-24
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    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?

  • Job 9:19-21
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    19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

    20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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

  • 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

  • 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • Eccl 9:1-2
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    1 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.

    2 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.

  • 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

  • 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

  • 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

  • 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

  • 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

    14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

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    19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

    20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

  • 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • 12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

  • Job 34:25-26
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    25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

  • 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

  • 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

  • 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • Job 22:18-20
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    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

    20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

  • 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

  • 17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

  • 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

  • 9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

  • 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

  • 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

  • 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

  • 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.