Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Genesis 14:12
They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Numbers 16:26
He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 2:18
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 18:4
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
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Exodus 17:7
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job 1:8
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Psalms 18:23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
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Job 1:13
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:14
that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:16
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:18
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:19
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 2:7
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
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Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 21:25
Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
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Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 6:26
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.
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Job 9:1
Then Job answered,
Job 9:2
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
Job 9:25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Job 9:31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
Job 9:35
then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
Job 10:15
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 17:8
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 34:1
Moreover Elihu answered,
Job 34:5
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
Job 34:8
who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Job 21:16
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:17
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
Job 24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Job 35:3
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Job 8:21
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
Job 8:22
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
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Job 22:19
The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Psalms 52:6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
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Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
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Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
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Genesis 18:25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Isaiah 57:2
He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Acts 28:4
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
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Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
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Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
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2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”
Jeremiah 47:6
“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
Jeremiah 47:7
“How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it.”
Ezekiel 14:12
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:17
“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—
Ezekiel 14:19
“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—
Ezekiel 14:20
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
Ezekiel 14:21
For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal!
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Job 15:4
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mark 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
2 Chronicles 24:21
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
Psalms 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
Matthew 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
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2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
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Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
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