Job 4:7
New Living Translation
7 “Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
When have the upright been destroyed?
Psalm 37:25
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25 Once I was young, and now I am old.
Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned
or their children begging for bread.
2 Peter 2:9
New Living Translation
9 So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
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Acts 28:4
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4 The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live.”
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Job 36:7
New Living Translation
7 He never takes his eyes off the innocent,
but he sets them on thrones with kings
and exalts them forever.
Job 8:20
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20 “But look, God will not reject a person of integrity,
nor will he lend a hand to the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Death Comes to All
9 This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor. 2 The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad,[a] ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises to God are treated like people who don’t.
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- 9:2 As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew lacks or bad.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
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The Limits of Human Wisdom
15 I have seen everything in this meaningless life, including the death of good young people and the long life of wicked people.
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Job 9:22-23
New Living Translation
22 Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God.
That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When a plague[a] sweeps through,
he laughs at the death of the innocent.
Footnotes
- 9:23 Or disaster.
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