Job 8:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:7 : 7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • Ps 37:24 : 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
  • Isa 45:1 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

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