@JesseDornfeld @men_like_trees @AndrewS76825037 Interestingly, and I know this is not an authoritative source, the Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 flips the sense completely, to avoid offence, I guess. “If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.” Job 9:23 DRC1752