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Job 9:23
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Job 9:23
23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
23If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 9:23
A whip or instrument of severe punishment; also to whip, afflict, or punish severely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To kill; to put to death by a weapon or by violence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In an unexpected manner; unexpectedly; hastily; without preparation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To laugh at in mockery, scorn, derision, or contempt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The act or process of testing or proving; a test, examination, or affliction that tries a person's faith, character, or endurance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Free from guilt in a matter; not blameworthy, harmful, or deserving punishment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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Open the full verse study15Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
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Open the full verse study17Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
21For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
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Open the full verse study13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.
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Open the full verse study36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
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Open the full verse study13¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
14And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18While 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:
19And, 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 I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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Open the full verse study7¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
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Open the full verse study7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Open the full verse study20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
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Open the full verse study22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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