Parallel Verses
King James Version
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
Julia Smith Translation
If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride 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 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing 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 handmaid.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
Job 1:13-19
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Job 24:12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Psalm 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 21:13
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Hebrews 11:36-37
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: