23If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.


In Context

20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

23 If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Job 9:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:23When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:23If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.