23 When (A)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment. 37 (B)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,[a] (C)they were killed with the sword. (D)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—

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  1. Hebrews 11:37 Some manuscripts add they were tempted

13 For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise (A)the rod?”[a] declares the Lord God.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:13 Or For it is a testing; and what if even the rod despises? It shall not be!

19 “Or (A)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (B)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (C)sword, (D)famine, (E)wild beasts, and (F)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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22 Yet (A)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

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12 From out of the city the dying[a] groan,
    and the soul of (A)the wounded cries for help;
    yet God charges no one with (B)wrong.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:12 Or the men

20 “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
    nor take the hand of evildoers.

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“Remember: (A)who that was innocent ever perished?
    Or where were the upright cut off?

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So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome (A)sores from (B)the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

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Satan Takes Job's Property and Children

13 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 14 and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and (A)the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants[a] with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, (B)“The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 17 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, (C)“The Chaldeans formed (D)three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, (E)“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across (F)the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:15 Hebrew the young men; also verses 16, 17

17 And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is (A)like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

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15 Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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