...perfect, yet would I not know my soule : I would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said it ; He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, Hee will laugh at the trial! of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : He covereth...

...He gave us. Job's words in many places prove that all this was in the way of trial ; thus : (ix. 23) if the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent, and in other passages. But he thought ; since He tried me in my goods, my children, my body, and I...

...17-18. •Job 3: 5. •Job 7: 9. « Job 30: 22. I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life; It is all one; therefore I say He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked." 1 Yet this man of fearlessness has too his moments of black despair: " I am like a rotten thing that...

...scroll2 which mine adversary had written. 31 : 35. There the prisoners are at ease together. 3: 18. If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. 9: 23. Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and marked all my paths. 13: 27. (6) Various occupations:...

...perfect, it shall prove me perverse. Though I be perfect, I will not regard myself; I despise my life. It is all one ; therefore I say, He destroyeth the...of the wicked : He covereth the faces of the judges thereof.45 If it be not he, Who then is it ? Now my days are swifter than a post : They flee away,...

...perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : He covcrcth the...

...perfect, yet would I not know my soul : I would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : He covereth the...

...sinner are alike nothing. Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: I despise my life, It is all one ; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. Thus Job is led to what is one of his fixed trains of thought : that this affliction is persecution...

...perfect, yet would I not know my soul : I would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : He covereth the...

...Davidson in Cambridge Bible) "Job's spirit reaches the lowest abyss of its alienation from God." (9:24.) " The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : He covereth the faces of the Judges thereof ; ('/ not He, who then is itt" God's power is great, but He is unmoral. There appears in Job a balancing...