Job 9:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

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

2 Samuel 14:15

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

2 Samuel 14:17

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, discerning good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

Job 2:7

So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Job 4:7

“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 8:20

“See, God will not reject the blameless, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Psalm 44:22

Because of you we are being killed all day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:13

For consider: What! If you despise the rod, will it not happen? says the Lord God.