Job 9:23 “When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the inno…”

Job 9:23

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

World English Bible

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

American Standard Version

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Geneva Bible 1599

If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

Darby Translation

If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

Young's Literal Translation

If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

Bible in Basic English

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

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Cross references

“If the”

Job 1:13–19 Job 2:7

Job 1:13–19 · BSB

One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 2:7 · BSB

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

“he will”

Job 4:7 Job 8:20 2 Samuel 14:15 2 Samuel 14:17 Psalm 44:22 Ezekiel 14:19–21

Job 4:7 · BSB

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 8:20 · BSB

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

2 Samuel 14:15 · BSB

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

2 Samuel 14:17 · BSB

And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

Psalm 44:22 · BSB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Ezekiel 14:19–21 · BSB

Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,

Also

Job 24:12

Job 24:12 · BSB

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

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