Job 9:23
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
BSB
ASV
If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
KJV
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
If He scourge, let Him slay once for all, and not laugh at the trial of the innocent. MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION Who would not suppose that this was uttered in pride, unless he heard the sentence of the Judge, Who pronounces, For ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath. Therefore it follows, that no one dare to find fault with the author's words, which it appears the Judge commends.
If the scourge slay suddenly - If calamity comes in a sudden and unexpected manner. Dr. Good, following Reiske, translates this,” if he suddenly slay the oppressor,” understanding the word scourge שׁוט shôṭ as meaning an oppressor, or one whom God employs as a scourge of nations. But this is contrary to all the ancient versions. The word שׁוט shôṭ means properly a whip, a scourge (compare the notes at Job 5:21), and then calamity or affliction sent by God upon men. Such is clearly the case here.
If--Rather, "While (His) scourge slays suddenly (the wicked, Job 9:22), He laughs at (disregards; not derides) the pining away of the innocent." The only difference, says Job, between the innocent and guilty is, the latter are slain by a sudden stroke, the former pine away gradually.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 8:20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
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Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates…
For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
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Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
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I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
