49 Bible Verses About God's Justice

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.