What does Job 9:22 mean?

Job 9:22 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 9:22 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

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