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Malachi 3:18
Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14-16
The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.Then I said in my heart,“ What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
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Job 9:22
It is all one; therefore I say,‘ He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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Malachi 3:5
“ Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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Joshua 2:17-20
The men said to her,“ We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12-14
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
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Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me,“ This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
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Job 21:7-34
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.They say to God,‘ Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.“ How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?You say,‘ God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.“ Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.For you say,‘ Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimonythat the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
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Ezekiel 17:18-19
He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.
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Genesis 24:3
that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
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Ecclesiastes 6:6
Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good— do not all go to the one place?
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Malachi 3:15
And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Genesis 24:8-9
But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
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1 Samuel 14 26
And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.