He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.
Cross References
Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Job 5:15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
Job 8:22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
Job 34:26He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,
Job 38:13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Treasury of Scripture
He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
preserveth
Job 21:7-9,30
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? …
Psalm 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Jeremiah 12:1,2
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
giveth
Job 29:12-17
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him…
Psalm 9:12
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalm 10:14,15
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless…
poor.
Exodus 22:22-24
Ye 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.
