preserveth

Job 21:7-9, 30
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? . . .

Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Jeremiah 12:1, 2
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? . . .

2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

giveth

Job 29:12-17
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. . . .

Psalm 9:12
For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 10:14, 15
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You consider it to take in hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. . . .

Psalm 72:4, 12-14
May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. . . .

Psalm 82:1-4
God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods: . . .

Proverbs 22:22, 23
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, . . .

Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide in favor of the earth's oppressed. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

poor.

Exodus 22:22-24
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. . . .

Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.