You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’
Job 8:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Look, God does not reject a person of integrity, and he will not support evildoers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he help the evil doers: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. Common English Bible Surely God won’t reject integrity, won’t strengthen the hand of the wicked. Catholic Public Domain Version God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil-doer: |
You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’
Indeed, the evil person is spared from the day of disaster, rescued from the day of wrath.
Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
It is all the same. Therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
The one who lives with integrity lives securely, but whoever perverts his ways will be found out.
The Lord says this to Cyrus, his anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and disarm kings, to open doors before him, and even city gates will not be shut: