Job 36:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their right.

Cross References

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity and are rescued in the day of wrath?

Job 34:26

He strikes them for their wickedness while others look on,

Job 38:13

so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Job 4:7

“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 5:15

But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.

Job 8:22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy and executes justice for the poor.

Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall live in your presence.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 72:4

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth; he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished