Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.

New American Standard Bible

“If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

King James Version

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Holman Bible

When disaster brings sudden death,
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If the scourge
שׁוט 
Showt 
Usage: 11

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

פּתאם פּתאום 
Pith'owm 
Usage: 25

he will laugh
לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 18

at the trial
מסּה 
Maccah 
Usage: 5

References

Morish

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

22 One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end. 23 If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh. 24 The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

Now, therefore, is it that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, because the people kept putting me in fear, - so thy maidservant said - Do let me, I pray you, speak unto the king! peradventure the king will fulfil the request of his handmaid.

2 Samuel 14:17

So thy maidservant said, Pray let the word of my lord the king be comforting, - for, as the messenger of God, so is my lord the king, in hearing the good and the bad, Yahweh thy God, then, be with thee.

Job 1:13-19

And there came a certain day, - when his sons and his daughters were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother.

Job 2:7

So the accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and smote Job with a sore boil, from the sole of his foot, unto his crown.

Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.

Job 8:20

Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:

Job 24:12

Out of the city - out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.

Psalm 44:22

Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or pestilence, I, should send into that land, - and should pour out mine indignation thereon in blood, to cut off therefrom man and beast

Ezekiel 21:13

For trial hath been made, What then, even though the royal rod despiseth, shall it not be? Demandeth My Lord. Yahweh.

Hebrews 11:36-37

Others, again, of mockings and scourgings, received trial, nay! further, of bonds and imprisonments:

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