Verse 23

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 14:15 : 15 Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king—perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant.
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 And your servant thought, 'May the word of my lord the king bring me peace, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.'
  • Job 1:13-19 : 13 One day, while Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, 'The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.' 16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.' 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties, swept down on the camels, and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.' 18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, 'Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 Consider this: Who that is innocent has ever perished? And where have the upright been destroyed?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Behold, God will not reject the blameless, nor will He support the hand of evildoers.
  • Job 24:12 : 12 From the city, the dying groan, and the life of the wounded cries out, but God does not regard their folly.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 would God not have discovered this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
  • Ezek 14:19-21 : 19 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath upon it in bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save son or daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness. 21 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four dreadful judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—against Jerusalem, to cut off both man and beast from it!
  • Ezek 21:13 : 13 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  • Heb 11:36-37 : 36 Still others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, and they were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated.