Job 9:23
If a scourge should slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the guiltless.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15And now that I am come to speak unto my Lord the king of this thing, [happened] because the people made me afraid; and therefore thy hand-maid said, I will still speak unto the king; perhaps the king may act [in accordance with] the word of his hand-maid.
Job 1:13And it happened on a certain day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother,
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous destroyed?
Job 24:12Out of a populous city is groaning heard, and the soul of the deadly wounded crieth out: yet God regardeth it not as an offence.
Ezekiel 14:19Or, if I should send out the pestilence against that land, and pour out my fury over it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
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 →