Job 9:23
For the worthless die, 1 But the righteous are laughed to scorn. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15And now whereas I came to speak this word to my lord the king, the reason is that the people will see me, and thy handmaid will say, Let one now speak to my lord the king, if peradventure the king will perform the request of his handmaid;
Job 1:13And it came to pass on a certain day, 1 That Job’s sons and his daughters 1 Were drinking wine in the house of their elder brother. 1
Job 4:7Remember then who has perished, being pure? 1 Or when were the truehearted utterly destroyed? 1
Job 24:12Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, 1 And the soul of the children has groaned aloud. 1
Ezekiel 14:19Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off 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 →