Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
Job 1:13It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 4:7“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 24:12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Ezekiel 14:19“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—
Hebrews 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by 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 →