Job 9:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall 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; and your handmaid thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

2 Samuel 14:17

And your handmaid 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!”

Job 2:7

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

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul 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

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

Psalm 44:22

Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:13

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