Job 9:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

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  • 2 Sam 14:15 : 15 Now therefore I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your maidservant said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your maidservant said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comforting: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
  • Job 1:13-19 : 13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house. 14 And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 when the Sabeans raided them and took them away; and they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and carried them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will He help the evildoers:
  • Job 24:12 : 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God does not charge them with folly.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ezek 14:19-21 : 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
  • Ezek 21:13 : 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword despises even the rod? it shall be no more, says the Lord GOD.
  • Heb 11:36-37 : 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

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