Job 8:3

8:3 Does God pervert justice?

Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 9:2

9:2 “Truly, I know that this is so.

But how can a human be just before God?

Job 35:2

35:2 “Do you think this to be just:

when you say, ‘My right before God.’

Job 40:8

40:8 Would you indeed annul my justice?

Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Genesis 18:25

18:25 Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”

Psalms 143:2

143:2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant,

for no one alive is innocent before you.

Psalms 145:17

145:17 The Lord is just in all his actions,

and exhibits love in all he does.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

7:20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth

who continually does good and never sins.

Jeremiah 12:1

12:1 Lord, you have always been fair

whenever I have complained to you.

However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice.

Why are wicked people successful?

Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?

Romans 2:5

2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

Romans 3:4-7

3:4 Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”

3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.) 3:6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world? 3:7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

Romans 9:20

9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

Romans 11:33

11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!