Job 9:23
If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Therefore, now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, in the presence of the people. And your handmaid said: I will speak to the king, for perhaps there may be some way for the king to accomplish the word of his handmaid.
Job 1:13So, on a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their first-born brother,
Job 4:7Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?
Job 24:12In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.
Ezekiel 14:19Then, if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and I pour out my indignation upon it with blood, so that I take away from it both man and beast,
Hebrews 11:36Truly, others were tested by mocking and lashes, and moreover by chains 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 →