When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks 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、

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 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.

“ And now your servant says,‘ May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—

“‘ Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign Lord.’

“ Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

“ And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought,‘ I will speak to the king; perhaps he will grant his servant’s request.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.

“ Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,a messenger came to Job and said,“ The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said,“ The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said,“ The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said,“ Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

“ Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.“ For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments— sword and famine and wild beasts and plague— to kill its men and their animals!