“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”
Job asserts that when calamity brings sudden death, God mocks the despair of the innocent, suggesting that divine indifference to human suffering amounts to mockery. The image of divine mockery transforms God from an impassive force into an active agent of contempt. The innocent are not merely abandoned but actively derided.
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