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21 I am blameless.
    I don’t respect myself.
    I despise my life.

22 “It is all the same.
    Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly,
    he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
    He covers the faces of its judges.
    If not he, then who is it?

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21 “I’m blameless;
    I don’t know myself;
        I despise my life.
22 I say it’s all the same—
    he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.[a]
23 If a calamity[b] causes sudden death,
    he’ll mock at the despair of the innocent.
24 A land is given into the hands of a wicked person;[c]
    he covers the faces of its judges.
        If it is not God,[d] then who is it?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:22 Or wicked
  2. Job 9:23 Or scourge
  3. Job 9:24 Lit. man
  4. Job 9:24 Lit. he