Job 9:23

English Standard Version 2016

When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

Cross References

Ezekiel 21:13

For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” declares the Lord God.

Psalm 44:22

Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

Job 8:20

“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Job 4:7

“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

2 Samuel 14:17

And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

2 Samuel 14:15

Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”