Wicked

Job 9:22-24 – It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent. When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

Ecclesiastes 9:2 – All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

Job 38:2 – “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?

Job 10:3 – Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

Job 27:2-4 – “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter, as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 – When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Jeremiah 12:1 – You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Application:

• ·         The God of the Bible is not morally indifferent.
• ·         God states that Job’s complaining and raging against Him are unjustified and proceed from limited understanding.
• ·         Job imagines that God is angry with him, an innocent man, and that he takes delight in the wicked.
• ·         Job’s faith in God continued despite his personal perception of denied justice.
• ·         Delayed punishment tends to induce more wrongdoing.
• ·         Because God is righteous, He is a dependable arbiter and judge.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV