Job 9:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ When [His] scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the calamity and trial of the innocent.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Common English Bible

²³ If calamity suddenly kills, he mocks at the slaying of innocents.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

Job 9:23 Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

2 Samuel 14:15

Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word 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 servant.

2 Samuel 14:17

Then thine handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and the LORD thy God be with thee.

Job 2:7

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God imputeth it not for folly

Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 8:20

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

Psalm 44:22

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:13

For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord GOD