Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh 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.
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 It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of hi
2 Samuel 14:17
Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be gracious, for as an agent of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. And LORD thy God be with thee.
Job 1:13-19
And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
Psalm 44:22
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Ezekiel 21:13
For there is a trial, and what if even the rod that scorns shall be no more? says lord LORD.
Hebrews 11:36-37
And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.