Job 9:23 Cross References - ACV

²³ If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

¹⁵ Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

¹⁷ Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be gracious, for as an agent of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. And LORD thy God be with thee.

¹³ And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁴ that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, ¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

⁷ So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.

¹² From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

²² Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

¹⁹ Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰ though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the lord LORD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. ²¹ For thus says the lord LORD: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

¹³ For there is a trial, and what if even the rod that scorns shall be no more? says the lord LORD.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented