Holy Scripture
Job 9:22
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“This is one thing, that I have spoken, He destroyeth both the perfect and the wicked. The 'perfect man is destroyed' by the Creator, in that whatever his pureness may have been, it is swallowed up by the pureness of the divine immensity. For though we take heed to preserve pureness, yet by consideration of the interio…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
22Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
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20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
21For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: But my life is taken away.
— Job 9:22 —
23For the worthless die, But the righteous are laughed to scorn.
24For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: He covers the faces of the judges of the earth: But if it be not he, who is it?