Job 9:22

Modern

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Traditional

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Literal

It is one thing! And upon thus I say, ‘The blameless and the wicked He brings to an end.’

Latin

Unum est quod locutus sum: et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.

Hebrew

English

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Ecclesiastes 9:1–3
So 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.
Luke 13:2–4
To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?
Job 10:8
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Ezekiel 21:3–4
…and 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.