Job 9:23
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
In Context
22It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15'And now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, [it is] because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,
Job 1:13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Job 24:12Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
Ezekiel 14:19'Or — pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast —
Hebrews 11:36and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet 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 →