TheWay BibleJob 9:23 KJV
Job · chapter 9 · verse 23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.Job 9:23 · King James Version
Job 9:23 in context
21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- suddenlypithʼôwminstantlyH6597 →
- scourgeshôwṭa lashH7752 →
- laughlâʻagto derideH3932 →
- trialmaççâha testing, of men or of GodH4531 →
- slaymûwthto dieH4191 →
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Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-24