Job 9:23
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
Darby Translation
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; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Job 1:13And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety.
Ezekiel 14:19Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Hebrews 11:36and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and 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 →