Job 4:7
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7 “Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
When have the upright been destroyed?
Job 4:7
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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.
Psalm 37:25
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2 Peter 2:9
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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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2 Peter 2:9
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9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials(A) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.(B)
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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Acts 28:4
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4 When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand,(A) they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”(B)
Job 36:7
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7 He never takes his eyes off the innocent,
but he sets them on thrones with kings
and exalts them forever.
Job 36:7
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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.
Job 8:20
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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 9:1-2
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A Common Destiny for All
9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(A) 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.(B)
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the 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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Ecclesiastes 7:15
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15 In this meaningless life(A) of mine I have seen both of these:
the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.(B)
Job 9:22-23
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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.
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- 9:23 Or disaster.
Job 9:22-23
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