Quotes about Justice
His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
— Job 18:7
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
— Job 19:22
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
— Job 19:28
then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
— Job 19:29
The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
— Job 20:27
This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
— Job 20:29
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
— Job 21:17
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
— Job 21:19
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
— Job 21:27
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
— Job 21:30
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
— Job 21:31
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
— Job 22:3