Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
He
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.
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
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
23
He
Phrases
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.