King James Version
Job 9:23 in the King James Version says “If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.” — study this verse from Job chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”
Job 9:23 · KJV
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“he will laugh”
H3932to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
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