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21 “I am innocent,
    but it makes no difference to me—
    I despise my life.
22 Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God.
    That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When a plague[a] sweeps through,
    he laughs at the death of the innocent.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:23 Or disaster.

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