Job 9:23

Translations

Modern

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Traditional

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Literal

If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Latin

Si flagellat, occidat semel, et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.

Original

Hebrew

English

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Notes

Job 9:1–35

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 24:12
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Job 2:7
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Hebrews 11:36–37
Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
Job 4:7
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Job 8:20
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
Ezekiel 14:19–21
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
2 Samuel 14:17
And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Job 1:13–19
One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Psalm 44:22
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Ezekiel 21:13
Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Despondency In Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Scourging: Fatal

Job 9:23

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