21 Though I were perfect, yet I know not my soul: therefore abhor I my life.

22 This is one point: therefore I said, He destroyeth the [a]perfect and the wicked.

23 If the scourge should suddenly [b]slay, should God [c]laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:22 If God punish according to his justice, he will destroy as well them, that are counted perfect as them that are wicked.
  2. Job 9:23 To wit, the wicked.
  3. Job 9:23 This is spoken according to our apprehension, as though he would say, If God destroy but the wicked, as Job 5:3, why should he suffer the innocent to be so long tormented by them?

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