Job 9:23 (WEB)
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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“…of the wicked, not that the latter might be honoured, but that the former might be tested: and though the wicked come, as it is written, to an awful death, nevertheless for the present the godly are a laughing stock, while the goodness of God and the great treasuries of what is in store for each of them hereafter…” — editor's note: Ib. ix. 23.
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