Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

New American Standard Bible

So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.’”

King James Version

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Holman Bible

So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”

International Standard Version

and, "Now we call the arrogant one blessed. Those who do evil prosper and those who challenge God escape the consequences.'"

A Conservative Version

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

Amplified

So now we call the arrogant happy and blessed. Evildoers are exalted and prosper; and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].’”

Bible in Basic English

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

Darby Translation

And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.

Julia Smith Translation

And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

King James 2000

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"

Modern King James verseion

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

NET Bible

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!'"

New Heart English Bible

Now we call the proud blessed; indeed, those who work wickedness prosper. They even tempt God and escape.'

The Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, we are pronouncing happy - the proud, - and, the doers of lawlessness have, even been built up, and, they who have put God to the proof, have even been delivered.

Webster

And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God are delivered.

World English Bible

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

Youngs Literal Translation

And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And now we call
אשׁר אשׁר 
'ashar 
Usage: 16

the proud
זד 
Zed 
Usage: 13

אשׁר אשׁר 
'ashar 
Usage: 16

רשׁעה 
Rish`ah 
Usage: 15

are set up
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

בּחן 
Bachan 
Usage: 29

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

References

Hastings

Context Readings

An Overflowing Blessing

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape. 16 Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.



Cross References

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Psalm 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

Numbers 14:22-23

because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .

Job 21:7-15

Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Job 21:30

That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea , contemneth Jehovah.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)

Psalm 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalm 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

Psalm 78:41

And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

Psalm 106:14

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit .

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

Jeremiah 7:10

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Daniel 4:30

The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 5:20-28

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Daniel 6:16

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

Habakkuk 1:13-17

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

Matthew 4:6-7

and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Acts 5:9

But Peter'said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

Acts 12:21

And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

Hebrews 3:9

Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

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