Job: How Can I Contend with God?
Job 9:22
In 11 translations
- BSB
- It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- KJV
- This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- WEB
- “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- ASV
- It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- LSV
- It is the same thing, therefore I said, || He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
- YLT
- It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
- DBY
- It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- DRC
- One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
- GNV
- This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
- JPS
- It is all one — therefore I say: He destroyeth the innocent and the wicked.
- LXXE
- Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַחַ֗ת הִ֥יא עַל־כֵּ֥ן אָמַ֑רְתִּי תָּ֥ם וְ֝רָשָׁ֗ע ה֣וּא מְכַלֶּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Διὸ εἶπον, μέγαν καὶ δυνάστην ἀπολλύει ὀργή,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ecclesiastes 9:1–3So 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. It is the same for all: There is a common…
- Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Luke 13:2–4To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate? No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen…
- Ezekiel 21:3–4and 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. Because I will cut off both the righteous and the…
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