King James Version (KJV)
Job 9:23
“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”
Verse in context — Job 9
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[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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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?
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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