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 thing. Therefore I say: God destroys 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 God, who else could it be?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

Your Majesty, I came here to tell you about my problem. I was afraid of what someone might do to me. I decided to come to you, because I thought you could help.

2 Samuel 14:17

I can rest easy now that you have given your decision. You know the difference between right and wrong just like an angel of God. I pray that Jehovah your God will be with you.

Job 1:13-19

One day when Job's children were having a feast at the home of their oldest brother,

Job 2:7

Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

Job 4:7

Now think about this: Which innocent person ever died an untimely death? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.

Job 8:20

Certainly God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

Job 24:12

The dying groan from the city. The throat of the wounded cries for help. Yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Psalm 44:22

We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Let us say I send a plague into that country or pour out my fury on it by killing people and destroying animals.

Ezekiel 21:13

For there is testing. And what if even the rod that despises will be no more? Declares the Lord Jehovah.

Hebrews 11:36-37

And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.

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