Job 9:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys 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 one knows 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 sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, 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 says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
  • Luke 13:2-4 : 2 And Jesus answered and said to them, Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, No: but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think they were worse sinners than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Your hands have made and fashioned me together all around; yet You destroy me.

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  • Job 9:23-24
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    23 If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

    24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: He covers the faces of its judges; if it is not He, then who is it?

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

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

    21 Though I were perfect, yet I would 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 who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs 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 one knows 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 sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

  • 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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

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

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

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

  • 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed altogether; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13 But he is of one mind, and who can change him? And whatever his soul desires, that he does.

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

  • Job 8:19-20
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    19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

    20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will He help the evildoers:

  • 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • 12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

  • Job 34:25-26
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    25 Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

  • 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • 12 Behold, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, What are you doing?

  • 5 The righteousness of the blameless 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 Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

  • 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

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

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

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 5 For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.

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

  • 2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

  • 9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing to delight himself in God.

  • 17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • 6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • 22 He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 7 The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • 17 For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • 7 When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.

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

  • 11 For He knows deceptive men; He sees wickedness also; will He not then consider it?

  • 10 Then 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 done so. This also is vanity.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.