World English Bible
Job 9:23
“If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.”
Verse in context — Job 9
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I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
22
It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
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Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
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