Job 36:6

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

⁵ Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one;
He understands all things.
⁶ He does not keep the wicked alive,
but He gives justice to the afflicted.
⁷ He does not remove His gaze from the righteous,
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.

Justice to the Afflicted

Job

Psalm 72:12-14

For he will rescue the poor who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord upholds
the just cause of the poor,
justice for the needy.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,

Exodus 22:22-24

“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Job 5:15

He saves the needy from their sharp words
and from the clutches of the powerful.

Job 8:22

Your enemies will be clothed with shame;
the tent of the wicked will exist no longer.

Job 21:7-9

Why do the wicked continue to live,
growing old and becoming powerful?

Job 21:30

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster,
rescued from the day of wrath.

Job 29:12-17

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Psalm 9:12

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 10:14-15

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 55:23

God, You will bring them down
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Psalm 72:4

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people,
help the poor,
and crush the oppressor.

Psalm 82:1-4

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Isaiah 11:4

but He will judge the poor righteously
and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
He will strike the land
with discipline from His mouth,
and He will kill the wicked
with a command from His lips.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,