Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. 23 “If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

2 Samuel 14:17

And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"

Job 1:13-19

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 4:7

"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 8:20

"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

Psalm 44:22

Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

"Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,

Ezekiel 21:13

For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" declares the Lord GOD.

Hebrews 11:36-37

Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

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