Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride at the trial of the innocent
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Holman Bible
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
International Standard Version
If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.
A Conservative Version
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
American Standard Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Amplified
“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks at the despair of the innocent.
Bible in Basic English
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
Darby Translation
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
King James 2000
If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.
Modern King James verseion
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
NET Bible
If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
New Heart English Bible
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
The Emphasized Bible
If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
Webster
If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
World English Bible
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Youngs Literal Translation
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
Themes
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
22 It is one: for this, I said, The blameless one and the unjust one he finishes. 23 If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride at the trial of the innocent 24 The earth was given into the hand of the unjust one: he will cover the faces of her judges; if not now, who is it?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
And now that I came to speak to the king my lord, this word, for the people will see me, and thy servant will say, I will speak now to the king, perhaps the king will do the word of his servant
2 Samuel 14:17
And thy servant will say, Now will the word of my lord the king be for a sacrifice, for as a messenger of God, so my lord the king to hear the good and the evil: and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.
Job 1:13-19
And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:
Job 2:7
And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.
Job 4:7
Remember now, who perished, he being innocent? and where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not reject the blameless one, and he will not take hold upon the hand of those doing evil:
Job 24:12
From the city men will groan, and the soul of the wounded will cry out: and God will not set folly.
Psalm 44:22
For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or I shall send death to that land, and I poured out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and cattle
Ezekiel 21:13
For it is a trial, and what if also the rod was rejected? it shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.
Hebrews 11:36-37
And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment: