Job 34:9 - Exposition

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God . Again it must be remarked that Job had not said this. The nearest approach to it is to be found in Job 9:22 , where this passage occurs: "It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked" (Revised Version). Elsewhere Job speaks, not generally, but of his own individual case, remarking that his righteousness has not saved him from calamity ( Job 9:17 , Job 9:18 ; Job 10:15 ; Job 17:9 -17, etc.). And the fact is one that causes him the deepest perplexity.