Job 24:12
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12 From out of the city the dying[a] groan,
and the soul of (A)the wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with (B)wrong.
Footnotes
- Job 24:12 Or the men
Ecclesiastes 4:1
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Evil Under the Sun
4 (A)Again I (B)saw all (C)the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had (D)no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
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2 Peter 3:15
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15 And count (A)the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as (B)our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you (C)according to the wisdom given him,
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Romans 2:4-5
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4 Or do you presume on (A)the riches of his kindness and (B)forbearance and (C)patience, (D)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (E)storing up (F)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Malachi 3:15
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15 And now we call (A)the arrogant blessed. (B)Evildoers not only prosper but (C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Malachi 2:17
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The Messenger of the Lord
17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words. (B)But you say, “How have we wearied him?” (C)By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, (D)“Where is the God of justice?”
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Isaiah 52:5
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5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (A)continually all the day my name is despised.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11-12
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11 Because (A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, (B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and (C)prolongs his life, yet I know that (D)it will be well with (E)those who fear God, because they fear before him.
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Psalm 109:22
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22 For I am (A)poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
Psalm 69:26
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26 For they (A)persecute him whom (B)you have struck down,
and they recount the pain of (C)those you have wounded.
Psalm 50:21
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21 These things you have done, and I (A)have been silent;
you thought that I[a] was one like yourself.
But now I (B)rebuke you and (C)lay the charge before you.
Footnotes
- Psalm 50:21 Or that the I am
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because (A)the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
(B)I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the (C)safety for which he longs.”
Job 9:23
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Footnotes
- Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Judges 10:16
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16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and (A)he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
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Exodus 22:27
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27 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he (A)cries to me, I will hear, for I am (B)compassionate.
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Exodus 2:23-24
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God Hears Israel's Groaning
23 (A)During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel (B)groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. (C)Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And (D)God heard their groaning, and God (E)remembered his covenant with (F)Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Exodus 1:13-14
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13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel (A)work as slaves 14 and (B)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
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