This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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Gill's Exposition
If the scourge slay suddenly,.... Not Satan, as Jarchi and Bar Tzemach; but any sore calamity which surrounds a man, lashes, cuts, and distresses him, as a whip or scourge; such as any of God's sore…
Barnes' Notes
This is one thing, therefore I said it - This may mean, “it is all the same thing. It makes no difference whether a man be righteous or wicked. God treats them substantially alike; he has one and the…
Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are…
Cambridge Bible
This verse reads,
It is all one, therefore I say,
He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked,
that is, indiscriminately. Here there is not only the former statement of ch. 7. that the destiny of man…