This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
One thing - translate 'It is all one; whether perfect or wicked-He destroyeth.' This was the point Job maintained against his friends (Job 4:7, etc.; 8:3,6), that the righteous and wicked alike are afflicted; and that great sufferings here do not prove great guilt (Luke 13:1-5) - "There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not" (Ecclesiastes 9:2). Maurer and Umbreit explain-`It is all one' to me whether I die or live. 'Therefore I say, He destroyeth the upright and the wicked' alike. "Therefore," then, will mean, 'Because I fear nothing, and it is all one to me what befals me.'