22 It is all one; therefore I say,
    ‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (B)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.
24 (C)The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
    he (D)covers the faces of its judges—
    (E)if it is not he, who then is it?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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