Job 4:7

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Consider this: Who that is innocent has ever perished? And where have the upright been destroyed?

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  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I was young, and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Behold, God will not reject the blameless, nor will He support the hand of evildoers.
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. 23 When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
  • Job 36:7 : 7 He does not remove His eyes from the righteous; He sets them on thrones with kings and exalts them forever.
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them. 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the locals saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Surely this man is a murderer! Although he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live."

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