Job 9:23

World English Bible (2000)

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 14:15 : 15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"
  • Job 1:13-19 : 13 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, 14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, 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, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken 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, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
  • Job 24:12 : 12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ezek 14:19-21 : 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
  • Ezek 21:13 : 13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Heb 11:36-37 : 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

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