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Selected Verse: Job 9:22 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 9:22 |
Strong Concordance |
This is one [0259] thing, therefore I said [0559] it, He destroyeth [03615] the perfect [08535] and the wicked [07563]. |
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King James |
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| one thing--"It is all one; whether perfect or wicked--He destroyeth." This was the point Job maintained against his friends, that the righteous and wicked alike are afflicted, and that great sufferings here do not prove great guilt (Luk 13:1-5; Ecc 9:2). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This is one thing, therefore I said it - This may mean, "it is all the same thing. It makes no difference whether a man be righteous or wicked. God treats them substantially alike; he has one and the same rule on the subject. Nothing can be argued certainly about the character of a man from the divine dealings with him here." This was the point in dispute, this the position that Job maintained - that God did not deal with people here in strict accordance with their character, but that the righteous and the wicked in this world were afflicted alike.
He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked - He makes no distinction among them. That Job was right in this his main position there can be no doubt; and the wonder is, that his friends did not all see it. But it required a long time in the course of events, and much observation and discussion, before this important point was made clear. With our full views of the state of retribution in the future world, we can have no doubt on the subject. Heavy and sudden judgments do not necessarily prove that they who are cut off are especially guilty, and long prosperity is no evidence that a man is holy. Calamity, by fire and flood, on a steamboat, or in the pestilence, does not demonstrate the unusual and eminent wickedness of those who suffer (compare Luk 13:1-5), nor should those who escape from such calamities infer that of necessity they are the objects of the divine favor. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| This - In the other things which you have spoken of God's greatness, and justice, I do not contend with you, but this one thing I do, and must affirm against you. He - God sends afflictions promiscuously upon good and bad men. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| This is one thing - My own observation shows, that in the course of providence the righteous and the wicked have an equal lot; for when any sudden calamity comes, the innocent and the guilty fall alike. There may be a few exceptions, but they are very extraordinary, and very rare. |
2 All things come alike to all: there is one [0259] event [04745] to the righteous [06662], and to the wicked [07563]; to the good [02896] and to the clean [02889], and to the unclean [02931]; to him that sacrificeth [02076], and to him that [0834] sacrificeth [02076] not: as is the good [02896], so is the sinner [02398]; and he that sweareth [07650], as he that feareth [03373] an oath [07621].
1 [1161] There were present [3918] at [1722] that season [846] [2540] some [5100] that told [518] him [846] of [4012] the Galilaeans [1057], whose [3739] blood [129] Pilate [4091] had mingled [3396] with [3326] their [846] sacrifices [2378].
2 And [2532] Jesus [2424] answering [611] said [2036] unto them [846], Suppose ye [1380] that [3754] these [3778] Galilaeans [1057] were [1096] sinners [268] above [3844] all [3956] the Galilaeans [1057], because [3754] they suffered [3958] such things [5108]?
3 I tell [3004] you [5213], Nay [3780]: but [235], except [3362] ye repent [3340], ye shall [622] all [3956] likewise [5615] perish [622].
4 Or [2228] those [1565] eighteen [1176] [2532] [3638], upon [1909] whom [3739] the tower [4444] in [1722] Siloam [4611] fell [4098], and [2532] slew [615] them [846], think ye [1380] that [3754] they [3778] were [1096] sinners [3781] above [3844] all [3956] men [444] that dwelt [2730] in [1722] Jerusalem [2419]?
5 I tell [3004] you [5213], Nay [3780]: but [235], except [3362] ye repent [3340], ye shall [622] all [3956] likewise [3668] perish [622].
1 [1161] There were present [3918] at [1722] that season [846] [2540] some [5100] that told [518] him [846] of [4012] the Galilaeans [1057], whose [3739] blood [129] Pilate [4091] had mingled [3396] with [3326] their [846] sacrifices [2378].
2 And [2532] Jesus [2424] answering [611] said [2036] unto them [846], Suppose ye [1380] that [3754] these [3778] Galilaeans [1057] were [1096] sinners [268] above [3844] all [3956] the Galilaeans [1057], because [3754] they suffered [3958] such things [5108]?
3 I tell [3004] you [5213], Nay [3780]: but [235], except [3362] ye repent [3340], ye shall [622] all [3956] likewise [5615] perish [622].
4 Or [2228] those [1565] eighteen [1176] [2532] [3638], upon [1909] whom [3739] the tower [4444] in [1722] Siloam [4611] fell [4098], and [2532] slew [615] them [846], think ye [1380] that [3754] they [3778] were [1096] sinners [3781] above [3844] all [3956] men [444] that dwelt [2730] in [1722] Jerusalem [2419]?
5 I tell [3004] you [5213], Nay [3780]: but [235], except [3362] ye repent [3340], ye shall [622] all [3956] likewise [3668] perish [622].