Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Preserveth
Poor
Bible References
Preserveth
Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Giveth
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Psalm 9:12
When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
Psalm 10:14
You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalm 82:1
[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Poor
Exodus 22:22
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.