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It sounds like a horror show if you only look at the verses you want to highlight and exclude the meanings of the rest which would give you a true understanding of what is revealed in the stories.

Life is a horror show; there are catastrophes, wars, accidents, etc.; the happenings during those times were no different in that respect to any other times.

Your writings are accusing God of being evil.

You may think you're "smart", or perhaps you're just a snarky little person with an axe to grind.

You blame God for not helping poor you.

Speaking evil of God is blasphemy. I notice everyone as been quite tolerant on this thread in not complaining to the moderators of such things.

Of course, the tolerance is all because Christians always want to bring the Bible to unbelievers.

I would just appreciate if you would perhaps say something other than the same old thing you've repeated here ad nauseum, that in your so high-and-mighty intelligent full-of-yourself opinion you think that the Old Testament reveals a God who is not just.

The grumble you posit is addressed by basic Biblical doctrine - which makes it clear you either have not studied, or you're in a hissy-fit of denial of Christ.

No matter how much you stomp your feet and scream, God is a just God. If you studied the Bible you'd know that the nations in the Bible that got pillaged deserved it. When the nation of Israel lost a battle, God was chastising them. They broke their covenants with God, God did not break them. When pagan nations were pillaged - they deserved it because their wicked ways also were against the same Law of God.

You're arguing about things that you know zero about. The questions you ask show your ignorance.

And your ignorance is wilful, because you are aware of the Bible and could study it.

But you love your sin more than you love God.

God willing, you will see your own sin and repent before you die, and you will appeal to the mercy of God, that by his Grace you might be saved. If not, you will die in your sins. Either way, God will be glorified in that his perfect justice will be manifested. And you can rest comfortably either way, because God has ordained what the outcome of everyone's life will be. If you will die in your sin, then, AS IT IS WRITTEN,

Ecclesiastes 9

"1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."