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Job 9:23
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When catastrophe brings sudden death,he mocks the despair of the innocent.
If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
If the whip brings sudden death, God will laugh at the suffering of the innocent.
If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
"When [His] scourge kills suddenly, He mocks at the despair of the innocent.
"If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If the scourge should suddely slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
If the scourge puts to death suddenly,He mocks the despair of the innocent.
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
When a good person dies a sudden death, God sits back and laughs.
When disaster brings sudden death, he laughs at the plight of the innocent.
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
Is it God who laughs when a disaster kills innocent people?
If his rod slays suddenly, he will laugh at the foolishness of the innocent.
When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.
When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.
And though he slaye sodenly wt the scourge, yet laugheth he at the punyshment of the innocent.
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent.
And though he slay sodaynly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If he betith, sle he onys, and leiye he not of the peynes of innocent men.
If the scourge slays suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent.
When a plague sweeps through, he laughs at the death of the innocent.
If death comes fast by disease, He makes fun of the trouble of those who have done no wrong.
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
"If the scourge kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If the: Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7
he will: Job 4:7, Job 8:20, 2 Samuel 14:15, 2 Samuel 14:17, Psalms 44:22, Ezekiel 14:19-21, Ezekiel 21:13, Hebrews 11:36, Hebrews 11:37
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:12 - who Genesis 18:25 - that the Job 1:8 - a perfect Job 22:19 - innocent Job 33:9 - innocent Job 34:9 - It Ecclesiastes 7:15 - there is a just
Cross-References
Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If the scourge slay suddenly,.... Not Satan, as Jarchi and Bar Tzemach; but any sore calamity which surrounds a man, lashes, cuts, and distresses him, as a whip or scourge; such as any of God's sore judgments, the sword, famine, pestilence, or evil beasts, which sometimes come suddenly, unawares, unthought of, and unexpected; and are sometimes only chastisements in love, the scourgings of a father, though generally in wrath and hot displeasure, and are an overflowing scourge, which carry all before them; and therefore some restrain it to wicked men, as the Septuagint version; and some understand it as if they were more mildly and gently dealt with, by being suddenly and at once slain with such a scourge, in their persons, families, and substance, while others have their afflictions protracted, and linger long under them, as in the next clause:
he will laugh at the trial of the innocent; not that are free from sin entirely; for there are none such, no, not newborn infants; though they may be comparatively so, yet they are not in an absolute sense, being conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity: besides, here it means adult persons, good men, that are truly gracious, sincere, upright, harmless in their lives and conversations, whose afflictions are "trials" of their faith and patience, and other graces; and when God is said to "laugh" at them, who seems to be designed here, this must be understood consistent with his pity to his people, his sympathy with them under all their afflictions, he not willingly afflicting or grieving the children of men; nor can it be thought that he has them in derision and contempt, or laughs at their calamities, or in reality, as he does at wicked men; but that he carries it so oftentimes, in the dispensations of his providence, as if he made no difference between them, but mocked at the one as well as the other; seemingly giving no heed to their cries; not hastening to their help and deliverance, but lengthening out their troubles for the trial of their graces; and so indeed is greatly delighted with the exercise of them under them, and with seeing them bear them with so much patience, courage, and greatness of mind and submission to his will. Some interpret this of a wicked man laughing at the calamities of the righteous, as the Ammonites and Edomites rejoiced at the destruction of the Jews; the church's enemy at her fall, and as the Papists will at the witnesses being slain; but the former sense seems best; rather the scourge itself laughs at the trial of the innocent; so Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If the scourge slay suddenly - If calamity comes in a sudden and unexpected manner. Dr. Good, following Reiske, translates this,” if he suddenly slay the oppressor,” understanding the word scourge שׁוט shôṭ as meaning an oppressor, or one whom God employs as a scourge of nations. But this is contrary to all the ancient versions. The word שׁוט shôṭ means properly a whip, a scourge (compare the notes at Job 5:21), and then calamity or affliction sent by God upon men. Such is clearly the case here.
He will laugh at the trial of the innocent - That is, he seems to disregard or to be pleased with their trials. He does not interpose to rescue them. He seems to look calmly on, and suffers them to be overwhelmed with others. This is a poetic expression, and cannot mean that God derides the trials of the innocent, or mocks their sufferings. It means that he seems to be inattentive to them; he suffers the righteous and the wicked to be swept away together as if he were regardless of character.
