Job 9:23
If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Job 1:13Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
Job 24:12Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Hebrews 11:36And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons.
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 →