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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Job 10:15

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Job 24:1–12

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? / Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. / They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Psalm 10:5

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Psalm 73:2–5, 12–17

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. / For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. / They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Psalm 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Ecclesiastes 8:12–17

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. / Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. / There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Ecclesiastes 9:2, 11

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow. / I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Jeremiah 12:1, 2

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? / You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Habakkuk 1:2, 3, 11, 13, 14

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save? / Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds. / Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

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God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Malachi 3:14, 15

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts? / So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

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