Job 8:20
Good News Translation
But God will never abandon the faithful or ever give help to evil people.

New Revised Standard Version
“See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Contemporary English Version
We know God doesn't reject an innocent person or help a sinner.

New American Bible
Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

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Job 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Job 9:22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Psalm 37:24,37 When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him. . . .

Psalm 94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

help the evil doers.

Isaiah 45:1 Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. 20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:21Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Job 21:30
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Job 8:19
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