If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

若忽然遭杀害之祸，他必戏笑无辜的人遇难。

若灾祸忽然带来死亡，他必戏笑无辜人的苦难。

若灾祸忽然带来死亡，他必戏笑无辜人的苦难。

灾祸突然夺走人命时，祂嘲笑无辜者的遭遇。

灾祸忽然把人杀害的时候，他就必嘲笑无辜人的遭遇。

若忽然遭殺害之禍，他必戲笑無辜的人遇難。

若災禍忽然帶來死亡，他必戲笑無辜人的苦難。

若災禍忽然帶來死亡，他必戲笑無辜人的苦難。

災禍突然奪走人命時，祂嘲笑無辜者的遭遇。

災禍忽然把人殺害的時候，他就必嘲笑無辜人的遭遇。

若有災禍突然使人死亡，他是調弄無辜人之絕望。

如災忽行殺戮、無辜者遘難、彼必笑之、

人忽死亡、主使之然、無辜受難、主不之憫、

天主若忽焉降災、誅戮世人、不顧無辜者受難、

When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

Suppose a plague brings sudden death. Then he laughs when those who haven’t sinned lose hope.

When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

When a plague sweeps through, he laughs at the death of the innocent.

When catastrophe brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent.

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

When disaster brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

So your servant said,‘ May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the LORD your God be with you!’”

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill- treated

“‘ For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the sovereign LORD.’

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. But your servant said,‘ I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant asks.

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

“ Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,and a messenger came to Job, saying,“ The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said,“ The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants– it has consumed them! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“ The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“ Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”

“ Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.“ For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!