Parallel Verses
Amplified
“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks 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.
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.
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
“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’
“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks at the despair of the innocent.
“The earth is given into the hands of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blind to justice].
If it is not He, then who is it [that is responsible for all this injustice]?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
Now I came to speak of this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. So your maidservant thought, ‘I will just speak to the king; perhaps the king will do what his maidservant requests.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for my lord the king is as the angel of God to discern good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”
Job 1:13-19
Now there was a day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 2:7
So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Job 4:7
“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?
Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?
Job 8:20
“Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity,
Nor will He strengthen or support evildoers.
Job 24:12
“From the [populous and crowded] city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out for help;
Yet God [seemingly] does not pay attention to the wrong [done to them].
Psalm 44:22
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or if I should send a virulent disease into that land and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and animal from it,
Ezekiel 21:13
For this sword has been tested [on others]; and what if it views with contempt the scepter [of Judah]? The scepter shall be no more [but shall be swept away],” says the Lord God.
Hebrews 11:36-37
and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], and even chains and imprisonment.