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

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

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.

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 1:3
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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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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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?

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 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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

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

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:

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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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