Job 9:23 meaning and explanation

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

Job 9:23, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering Bildad, who had insisted that God always vindicates the upright. Job agrees God is powerful but protests that power alone does not explain his suffering.

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