Job 8:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:7 : 7 Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
  • Ps 37:24 : 24 When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each `is' peace.
  • Ps 94:14 : 14 For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
  • Isa 45:1 : 1 Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

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