Job 9:23

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

If a scourge puts to death suddenly, He laughs at the trial of the innocent.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

GNV

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

JPS

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.

LXXE

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

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WLC

אִם־שׁ֭וֹט יָמִ֣ית פִּתְאֹ֑ם לְמַסַּ֖ת נְקִיִּ֣ם יִלְעָֽג׃

LXX-Br

ὅτι φαῦλοι ἐν θανάτῳ ἐξαισίῳ, ἀλλὰ δίκαιοι καταγελῶνται,

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• Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
• Job 1:13–19One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, the Sabeans…
• 2 Samuel 14:17And 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.’”
• 2 Samuel 14:15Now 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.
• Ezekiel 14:19–21Or 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, then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it,…
• Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
• Job 8:20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
• Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Ezekiel 21:13Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
• Job 2:7So 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.
• Hebrews 11:36–37Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute,…

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