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Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:23 · World English Bible
Job 9:23 in other translations
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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In context
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
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