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 One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect 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 does this then, who is it and where is he?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

Now, therefore, that I have come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. But thy handmaid said to herself, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the word of his handmaid.

2 Samuel 14:17

Then thy handmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil; and let the LORD thy God be with thee.

Job 1:13-19

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;

Job 2:7

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

Job 8:20

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man; neither will he help the evil doers.

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.

Psalm 44:22

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon her in blood to cut off out of her man and beast

Ezekiel 21:13

because it shall be a trial. What shall be if it does not despise the rod? said the Lord GOD.

Hebrews 11:36-37

and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

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