15 Bible Verses about Prosperity Of The Wicked
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Why do the wicked continue to live,
growing old and becoming powerful?
Their children are established while they are still alive,
and their descendants, before their eyes.
Their homes are secure and free of fear;
no rod from God strikes them.
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Their bulls breed without fail;
their cows calve and do not miscarry.
They let their little ones run around like lambs;
their children skip about,
singing to the tambourine and lyre
and rejoicing at the sound of the flute.
They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace.
In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?
The earth is handed over to the wicked;
He blindfolds its judges.
If it isn’t He, then who is it?
For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have an easy time until they die,
and their bodies are well fed.
They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.
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Therefore, pride is their necklace,
and violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
They mock, and they speak maliciously;
they arrogantly threaten oppression.
They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues strut across the earth.
You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?
There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
Is it good for You to oppress,
to reject the work of Your hands,
and favor the plans of the wicked?
Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?
Why are You silent
while one who is wicked swallows up
one who is more righteous than himself?
I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.
Are there still the treasures of wickedness
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?
So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”
the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.
