Job 9:24

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

²³ “If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.
²⁴ “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges.
If it is not He, then who is it?
²⁵ “Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

Lawless One

Whole Earth

Job

Job 10:3

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Job 24:25

“Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar,
And make my speech worthless?”

2 Samuel 15:30

And David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went, and his head was covered and he walked barefoot. Then all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king covered his face and cried out with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Esther 6:12

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.

Esther 7:8

Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Job 12:6-10

“The tents of the destroyers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure,
Whom God brings into their power.

Job 12:17

“He makes counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.

Job 16:11

“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 21:7-15

“Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?

Job 32:2

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

Psalm 17:14

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babes.

Psalm 73:3-7

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;
Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

Jeremiah 14:4

“Because the ground is cracked,
For there has been no rain on the land;
The farmers have been put to shame,
They have covered their heads.

Daniel 4:17

“This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers
And the decision is a command of the holy ones,
In order that the living may know
That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind,
And bestows it on whom He wishes
And sets over it the lowliest of men.”

Daniel 5:18-21

O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

Daniel 7:7-28

After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

Habakkuk 1:14-17

Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?