Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of hi
Job 1:13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 24:12From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Hebrews 11:36And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:23-25
22 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? Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress; he… Read the whole commentary →