(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? (25) В¶ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. (26) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. (27) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job, in those verses, makes an inference from what he had before laid down as a doctrine: This one thing therefore I said; meaning, what he had insisted upon before, that by outward providences, no man should draw conclusions of GOD'S favor or disapprobation. To speak of it in gospel terms, the LORD causeth his sun to shine upon the evil and upon the good, and sendeth the blessings of rain upon the just and upon the unjust. Matthew 5:45.