Job 9:23
If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Nowe therefore that I am come to speake of this thing vnto my lord the King, the cause is that the people haue made me afrayd: therefore thine handmayde sayd, Nowe will I speake vnto the King: it may be that the King will perfourme the request of his handmayde.
Job 1:13And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?
Job 24:12Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,
Hebrews 11:36And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.
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 →