Job 9:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.”
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BSBPD
“When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 9:23 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
- 2 Samuel 14:17And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
- Job 1:13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 8:20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 21:13Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
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