Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair 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.
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
Muwth
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
22 I say it's all the same he destroys both the blameless and the guilty. 23 If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent. 24 A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?"
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
"Now as to why I've come to speak with your majesty the king, it's because the people have made me afraid, so your humble servant told herself, "I'll go speak to the king, so perhaps the king will do what his humble servant has requested.
2 Samuel 14:17
"So your humble servant is saying, "Please, your majesty, let what the king has to say be of comfort, because just as the angel of God is, so also is your majesty the king to discern both good and evil. And may the LORD your God remain present with you.'"
Job 1:13-19
Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house,
Job 2:7
So Satan left the LORD's presence and struck Job with terrible boils from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.
Job 4:7
Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?
Job 8:20
Surely God won't reject those who are blameless or hold hands with those who practice evil.
Job 24:12
From the city, dying men groan aloud, and the wounded cries out for help, but God charges no one with wrong.
Psalm 44:22
For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,
Ezekiel 21:13
because testing is sure to come. "In putting the sword to the test along with the scepter, it won't keep on rejecting, will it?' declares the Lord GOD."
Hebrews 11:36-37
Still others endured taunts and floggings, and even chains and imprisonment.