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Jeremiah 12:1
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

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Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

Jeremiah 15:11
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Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

Jeremiah 45:5
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.

Lamentations 1:5
Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

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Job 21:7
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

Job 21:8
Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9
Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

Job 12:6
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

Psalms 73:5
They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Malachi 2:17
You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Psalms 37:5
Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

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Psalms 73:3
Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

Psalms 73:4
For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

Psalms 37:1
Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Psalms 37:35
I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Job 21:10
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

Job 21:11
They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

Job 21:12
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Job 21:30
How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Job 24:1
Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

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Psalms 73:7
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Psalms 73:8
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

Psalms 73:9
Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

Psalms 73:10
For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

Psalms 73:11
And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

Psalms 73:12
Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Psalms 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

Psalms 92:7
When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

Psalms 37:7
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

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Genesis 18:25
Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

Nehemiah 9:33
But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Romans 3:5
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

Romans 3:6
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

Job 8:3
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Job 34:10
Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Job 34:11
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

Genesis 18:23
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

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Psalms 145:17
The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

Daniel 9:8
O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

Psalms 119:137
TZADE O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

Daniel 9:14
So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

Job 34:23
For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

Job 35:2
Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Psalms 92:15
For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

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Romans 9:14
What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

Revelation 15:3
And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

Revelation 15:4
What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.

Ezra 9:15
O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

Revelation 16:7
And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

2 Chronicles 12:6
Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

Ezra 9:13
And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

Romans 3:4
In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

2 Thessalonians 1:5
Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

Revelation 16:5
And the voice of the angel of the waters came to my ears, saying, True and upright is your judging, O Holy One, who is and was from all time:

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Jeremiah 12:5
If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Isaiah 24:16
From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Isaiah 48:8
Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Jeremiah 5:11
For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Hosea 5:7
They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

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Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

Psalms 10:5
His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

Habakkuk 1:12
Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

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Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Psalms 119:75
I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Habakkuk 1:13
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

Habakkuk 1:14
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

Habakkuk 1:15
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

Habakkuk 1:16
For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

Habakkuk 1:17
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

Habakkuk 2:1
I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.

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Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

Job 37:23
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

Psalms 77:19
Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

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Jeremiah 4:12
A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.

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Job 13:3
But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

Job 23:7
There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

Job 9:3
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Isaiah 41:21
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.

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Psalms 94:3
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Psalms 73:1
Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

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Jeremiah 1:16
And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

Jeremiah 52:9
Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.

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John 3:8
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:51
See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

Ephesians 5:32
This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:16
And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

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Exodus 5:22
And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!

Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

Joshua 7:9
For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?

Psalms 74:1
Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

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Psalms 1:4
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

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Jeremiah 5:30
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;

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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

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Jeremiah 12:14
This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 12:15
And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.

Jeremiah 12:16
And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

Jeremiah 12:17
But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.

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