Job 9:23
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Job 1:13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even 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 →