67 Bible Verses About Theodicy

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.

Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

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

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

And Job spake, and said,

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Then Job answered and said,

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.