Job 9:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And though he slay sodaynly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

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  • 2 Sam 14:15 : 15 Nowe therfore I am come to speake of this thing vnto the my lord the king, because they that be of ye people haue made me afrayd: And thy handmayde sayd, Now will I speake vnto the king, it may be that the king will perfourme the request of his handmayde.
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 And thyne handmayde sayde: The worde of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: For my lord the king is as an angel of God, in hearing of good & bad: Therfore the Lorde thy God be with thee.
  • Job 1:13-19 : 13 And vpon a certayne day, when his sonnes and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 14 There came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabees came violently, and toke them away, yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another, and sayde: The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes, and consumed them: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whyle he was yet speaking there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made out their bandes, and fel vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde: and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee. 18 And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house, 19 And behold there came a mightie great wind from beyond the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, whiche fell vpon thy children, and they are dead: and I am gotten away alone to tell thee.
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So went Satan foorth from the presence of the Lorde, and smote Iob with sore byles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Beholde, God will not cast away a vertuous man, neither wil he helpe the vngodly.
  • Job 24:12 : 12 Men out of the citie crye vnto the Lord with sighing, the soules of the slayne also crye out, yet God regardeth not their complaynt.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne.
  • Ezek 14:19-21 : 19 If I sende a pestilence into this lande, and powre out my sore indignation vppon it in blood, so that I roote out of it both man and beast, 20 And if Noe, Daniel, and Iob were therein, as truely as I liue saith the Lorde God, they shall deliuer neither sonne nor daughter, but saue their owne soules in their righteousnesse. 21 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde God, Howe much more when I sende my foure troublous plagues vpon Hierusalem, the sworde, hunger, perillous beastes, and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?
  • Ezek 21:13 : 13 Because it is a triall: and what if it contemne the rodde? It shalbe no more saith the Lorde.
  • Heb 11:36-37 : 36 And others were tryed with mockynges, and scourgynges: Yea, moreouer with bondes and prisonment: 37 They were stoned, were hewen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with sword, wandred about in sheepskinnes, and goates skinnes, beyng destitute, afflicted and tormented:

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  • 22This is one poynt, and therefore I sayd, He destroyeth both the perfect and vngodly.

  • 19The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne.

  • 24As for the worlde it is geuen ouer into the hande of the wicked, and he shall couer the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he, or who is he that can shewe the contrarie?

  • 6The righteous also shall see this: and they wyll be afraide and laugh hym to scorne.

  • Ps 37:12-13
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    12The vngodly busieth his head all against the iust: and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth.

    13The Lorde shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth that his day is comming.

  • 22God shal cast vpon him, and not spare, though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande.

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 7Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed?

  • 5Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at another mans hurt, shall not be vnpunished.

  • 11Then shall they take a courage, and transgresse, and do wickedly, imputing this their power vnto their god.

  • 19If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • Job 24:22-23
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    22He drue the mightie after hym with his power, and when he was gotten vp no man was sure of lyfe.

    23And though they gaue him to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

  • 8Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite.

  • Job 11:10-11
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    10Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?

    11For it is he that knoweth vayne men, he seeth their wickednesse also, shoulde he not then consider it?

  • 9Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.

  • 2And he neuerthelesse is wise, and will plague the wicked, and goeth not from his worde, he wyll aryse against the housholde of the frowarde, and against the helpe of euyll doers.

  • 23For God wil not lay vpon man more then he hath sinned, that he should enter into iudgement with him.

  • 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and straunge punishement to the workers of iniquitie?

  • Job 9:12-13
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    12If he be hastie to take away, who wil make him restore it? or who will say vnto hym, what doest thou?

    13God will not withdraw his anger, and the most mightie helpes do stowpe vnder hym:

  • 9Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?

  • 15Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed.

  • 17Neuerthelesse, thou hast commended the iudgement of the vngodly, and euen such a iudgement & sentence shalt thou suffer.

  • 3Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?

  • 26Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

  • 29Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? Oh, no.

  • 21A feareful sounde is euer in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.

  • Isa 29:20-21
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    20For he that dyd violence is brought to naught, and the scornefull man is consumed, and they rooted out that made haste early to vnrighteousnesse,

    21Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • 17Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth, therefore refuse not thou the chastening of the almightie:

  • 26The vngodly doth he punishe openly,

  • 6As for the vngodly he shall not preserue him, but shall helpe the poore to their right.

  • 17He may well prepare it, but the godly shall put it on, and the innocent shall deale out the money.

  • 24Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.

  • 17He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.

  • 21Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse.

  • 19Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould.

  • 28A wicked witnesse mocketh iudgement: and the mouth of the vngodly deuoureth wickednesse.

  • 23For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.

  • 24He that saith to the vngodly thou art righteous, hym shall the people curse, yea the comminaltie shall abhorre him:

  • 7The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

  • 4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.

  • 30The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes.

  • 31Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth?

  • 29When he geueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hydeth his face, who can beholde him? whether it be vpon nations, or vpo one man onely:

  • 21They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.

  • 22When he had plenteousnesse of euery thing, yet was he poore, though he was helped on euery side.