Job 24:23

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Job 24:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

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Psalms 73:3

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4

They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

Psalms 73:5

They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

Psalms 73:6

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Psalms 73:7

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Psalms 73:8

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:9

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

Psalms 73:10

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalms 73:11

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Psalms 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

Isaiah 10:8

“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

Isaiah 10:9

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Isaiah 10:11

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

Luke 12:16

Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.

Luke 12:17

So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Luke 12:18

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.

Luke 12:19

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Luke 12:45

But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Psalms 10:13

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Psalms 10:14

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 11:4

The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

Psalms 11:5

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

Proverbs 5:21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Proverbs 25:21

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

Proverbs 25:22

For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

Proverbs 25:23

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

Amos 8:7

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.