Job 4:7
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7 “Remember: (A)who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
Psalm 37:25
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25 I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or his children (A)begging for bread.
2 Peter 2:9
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9 then (A)the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,[a] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
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- 2 Peter 2:9 Or temptations
Job 36:7
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7 He does not withdraw his (A)eyes from the righteous,
but with (B)kings on the throne
he sets them forever, and they are (C)exalted.
Job 8:20
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20 “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Death Comes to All
9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, (A)how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are (B)in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 (C)It is the same for all, since (D)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (E)swears is as he who shuns an oath.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil
Ecclesiastes 7:15
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15 In my (A)vain[a] life I have seen everything. There is (B)a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who (C)prolongs his life in his evildoing.
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- Ecclesiastes 7:15 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Job 9:22-23
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (B)disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.
Footnotes
- Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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