What is man that he should try to override God in any capacity, or who is he to in his imperfection to destroy what God in his perfection has created in God's own image, and is of divine symbolic value to God?

And one has God telling them as much in Genesis 9:6, that God sets about an ordinance to recompense violent and bloody persons accordingly to their bloodshed, primarily, because of the divine symbolism present in the physical body of man in which the offending act is perpetrated.

Now, in the case of a woman the assurance of such recompense by this ordinance as contained in Genesis 9:6 seams not to be assured. That is not to say that it is not possible or that it never occurs that God recompenses bloodshed or violence back to violator's of women, surely he does and has, only that it is not under auspices of Genesis 9:6 in the case where the victim is a woman, because she is not an image bearer of God in her flesh, and God is in himself and his decrees not in fact arbitrary, but definite. One supposes that it is definitively God's prerogative to take noticeable reprisal, for reasons in his infinite wisdom a Holy God sees as just and simultaneously thereby are just. In the case where the victim is a man, again according to Genesis 9:6 a guarantee is made. It may not be an immediate recompensation (operating on God's time table) or not even realized when God enacts this vengeance or partly or completely deferred when such reprisal can be taken on by the person of Jesus Christ at the Cross, and God's full judgment is not enacted upon the perpetrator in justice, and some degree of mercy may be shown.

Noted when a nation is protected by God and under covenant relationship in him and in right standing with God (*imperative*), then one reasons that the LORD recompenses the destruction of both men and women not just through crime, but by war and accident or other causes either swiftly upon their perpetrators or upon himself at the cross as in the case of multiple scenarios, a few of which one imagines are listed as follows; as in the case of waging a just war where the Lords spirit may go before armies in battle, or say in sincere repentance and conversion of a criminal, or someone protecting another person or persons in the taking of a life to save life, etc. And as much is ascertained from the Bible in the book of Malachi concerning the testament of God when he might draw near to a covenant people for justice.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers,

and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

… Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD

of hosts. …

Also noted, one reasons that an actual Christian who actually belongs to Jesus Christ or will belong to him in as predetermined by God in God's divine omniscience, even in a day when God's presence is absent much of humanity, that person could potentially be covered by grace in the scenario in the act of justified taking of a life, say as in a war between nations, an act of legitimate and just law enforcement, etc as the passages of Hosea 2:23 & 6:6 pontificate how God's mercy would be sown into a Christian nation.