Job 9:23 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”

Job 9:23

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

This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

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

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

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

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Job 9:1

"Then Job answered and said,"

Job 9:2

"I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}"

Job 9:3

"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."

Job 9:4

"{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?"

Job 9:5

"Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger."

Job 9:6

"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."

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