Job 36:6

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

⁵ Look, God [is] mighty but does not despise [anyone]; [he is] mighty [and] {good in understanding}. ⁶ He does not keep [the] wicked alive but grants justice [to the] afflicted. ⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from [the] righteous, but he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted.

Justice to the Afflicted

Job

Psalm 72:12-14

Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.

Psalm 140:12

I know that Yahweh will maintain [the] cause of [the] afflicted, [and] justice for [the] needy.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;

Exodus 22:22-24

" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.

Job 5:15

And he saves from the sword of their mouth, {even} [the] poor from the hand of the strong.

Job 8:22

[Those] who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."

Job 21:7-9

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

Job 21:30

Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.

Job 29:12-17

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

Psalm 9:12

for he [who] {avenges bloodshed} remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of [the] afflicted.

Psalm 10:14-15

[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.

Psalm 72:4

May he provide justice [for the] poor of [the] people, save [the] children of [the] needy, and crush [the] oppressor.

Psalm 82:1-4

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge [the] poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for [the] needy of [the] earth with rectitude. And he shall strike [the] earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill [the] wicked person with the breath of his lips.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

2 Peter 2:9

[then] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,