The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 22

[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

King James Version

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

American Standard Version

It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

New English Translation

Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

World English Bible

"It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless 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 faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.