Jeremiah 12:1
Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?
Job 12:6
The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.
Psalm 51:4
I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil in your sight. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge.
Malachi 3:15
We call arrogant people happy. Evil people test God's patience with their wicked deeds. They not only get away with it, they also prosper.
Ezra 9:15
O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteousness is yours. We are only a small band that has been kept from death this day. See, we are before you in our sin. For no one may keep his place before you because of this.
Job 13:3
But I want to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
Job 21:7-15
Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power?
Psalm 37:1
([Psalm of David]) Do not be bothered by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things.
Psalm 92:7
Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.
Jeremiah 5:11
The house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously with me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 11:20
O Jehovah of Hosts, you are a fair judge. You test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them. For that reason I presented my case to you.
Daniel 9:7
O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
Habakkuk 1:4
The law is paralyzed and justice is never delivered. The wicked surround the righteous and deliver perverted justice.
Genesis 18:25
Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.
Psalm 37:35
I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.
Psalm 73:3-28
I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.
Psalm 94:3-4
O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult?
Psalm 119:75
I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Psalm 119:137
You are righteous, O Jehovah. Your judgments are upright.
Psalm 145:17
Jehovah is righteous in all his ways. He is kind in all his deeds.
Proverbs 1:32
Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.
Isaiah 41:21
Present your case, says Jehovah. Set forth your arguments, says Jacob's King.
Isaiah 48:8
You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you have acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.
Jeremiah 5:27-28
Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich.
Jeremiah 12:6
Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you. They join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.
Hosea 6:7
Like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.
Habakkuk 1:13-17
Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?
Zephaniah 3:5
Jehovah is righteous within her. He will do no wrong. He brings justice to the dawn of the morning. He does not fail! Yet the unjust know no shame.
Romans 3:5-6
If our unrighteousness defines God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his anger is he? I speak in human terms.