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Job 9:22
Job 9:22 is verse 22 of Job chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
King James Version
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
World English Bible
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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Job 9:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
21 Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
22 It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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 21:4Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
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?
Luke 13:3No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?