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21 “I am blameless; I do not care about myself;[a]
I loathe my life.
22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When the whip[b] kills suddenly,
he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the face of its judge—
if it is not he, then who is it?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:21 Perhaps the meaning is “but it makes no difference to me” (NLT)
  2. Job 9:23 Or “scourge”