Job 9:23
If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15Now, therefore, [is it] that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, because the people kept putting me in fear,—so thy maidservant said—Do let me, I pray you, speak unto the king! peradventure the king will fulfil the request of his handmaid.
Job 1:13And there came a certain day,—when his sons and his daughters were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother.
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.
Job 24:12Out of the city—out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.
Ezekiel 14:19Or pestilence, I, should send into that land,—and should pour out mine indignation thereon in blood, to cut off therefrom man and beast
Hebrews 11:36Others, again, of mockings and scourgings, received trial, nay! further, of bonds and imprisonments:
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 →