Job 9:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’”
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“It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.”
King James Version · Public Domain“It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 9:22 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
- Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
- Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- Luke 13:2To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?
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