Ecclesiastes 3:18

God's Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice To Exist In The World

¹⁷ I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.” ¹⁸ I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.” ¹⁹ For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

Sons of Men

Under the Sun

Children Of Men

O God

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Genesis 3:17-19

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Job 14:1-4

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

Job 15:16

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,
who drinks injustice like water?

Job 40:8

Would you really challenge My justice?
Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?

Psalm 49:12

But despite his assets, man will not last;
he is like the animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Psalm 49:19-20

he will go to the generation of his fathers;
they will never see the light.

Psalm 51:4

Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.

Psalm 73:18-19

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

Psalm 90:5-12

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

Romans 3:4

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

Romans 9:23

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—

1 Peter 1:24

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,