If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

If the

Job 1:13-19 Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother, . . .

Job 2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

he will

Job 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Job 8:20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

2 Samuel 14:15,17 Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid. . . .

Psalm 44:22 Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 14:19-21 Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: . . .

Ezekiel 21:13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Hebrews 11:36,37 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons. . . .