If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight 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 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 a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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

Your maidservant said,‘ The word of my Lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my Lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’”

Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

“ Because it is a testing, And what if the sword despises even the scepter? The scepter shall be no more,” says the Lord GOD.

“ Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?

Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my Lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said,‘ I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers.

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house;and a messenger came to Job and said,“ The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,when the Sabeans raided them and took them away— indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”While he was still speaking, another also came and said,“ 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!”While he was still speaking, another also came and said,“ The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”While he was still speaking, another also came and said,“ Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

“ Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast,even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD,“ they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”For thus says the Lord GOD:“ How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem— the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence— to cut off man and beast from it?