A moment in scripture
Job 9:23
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If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Job 9:24
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?
- Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.