King James Version (KJV)
Job 9:22
“This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.”
Verse in context — Job 9
20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21
[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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?
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