Job 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
BSB
ASV
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
KJV
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
This is one thing, that I have spoken, He destroyeth both the perfect and the wicked. The 'perfect man is destroyed' by the Creator, in that whatever his pureness may have been, it is swallowed up by the pureness of the divine immensity. For though we take heed to preserve pureness, yet by consideration of the interior Perfection it is shewn, that this which we practise is not purity; 'the wicked' likewise is 'destroyed' by the Creator, in that whilst God ordereth all things marvellously, his wickedness is caught in the noose of his own artifices.
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.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
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Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
