Job 24:23

God grants the wicked security and rest, yet His eyes remain on their ways. It matters because divine watchfulness accompanies even apparent ease.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 15:3Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Ps 11:4–5Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
• Ps 73:3–12For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Hab 1:13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
• Isa 10:8–11For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
• Isa 56:12“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
• Prov 25:21–23If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
• Luke 12:16–20He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
• Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
• Ps 10:13–14Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
• Jer 12:1–3You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
• Luke 12:45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

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