Job 9:23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
King James Version
In Context
22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Job 1:13And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Hebrews 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of 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 →