Job 9:23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. Job agrees that no one can contend with God but despairs because God's power makes a fair hearing impossible. He describes God's cosmic might in establishing heavens and earth while lamenting that the same power that could vindicate him also …
Other Translations
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
Cross References
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and …
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly …
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of …
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it …
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s …
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith …
For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, …