Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment 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.
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.
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
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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 "This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly. 23 And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent. 24 As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:15
And now, concerning that, I am come to speak of this thing unto the king my lord in the presence of the people. Thy handmaid thought, 'Surely I will speak unto the king; peradventure the king will hear the request of his handmaid.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then thine handmaid said, 'I pray God that the word of my lord the king may be immutable. For my lord the king is as an angel of God, in hearing of good or bad.' And therefore the LORD thy God be with thee."
Job 1:13-19
Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;
Job 4:7
"Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?
Job 8:20
"Behold, God will not cast away a virtuous man, neither will he help the ungodly.
Job 24:12
"The whole city crieth unto the LORD with sighing, the souls of the slain make their complaint: But God destroyeth them not for all this,
Psalm 44:22
For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
If I send a pestilence into the land, and pour out my sore indignation upon it in blood, so that I root out of it both man and beast,
Ezekiel 21:13
And what a trial shall this be, when even my scepter shall be reproved? That shall not be, sayeth the LORD God.
Hebrews 11:36-37
Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment: