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Job 24:22 King James He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Reply of Job to the opinion of the friends. Experience proves the contrary. Translate: "But He (God) prolongeth the life of (literally, draweth out at length; Psa 36:10, Margin) the mighty with His (God's) power. He (the wicked) riseth up (from his sick bed) although he had given up hope of (literally, when he no longer believed in) life" (Deu 28:66).
 
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66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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?
26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.