Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power?

Job 12:6

The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

Psalm 17:10

They have no feeling. Their mouths have spoken arrogantly.

Psalm 73:3-12

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Jeremiah 12:1-3

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

Daniel 4:17

The decision is by the decree of the watchers. The sentence by the word of the holy ones! It is to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets over it the lowest of men.

Habakkuk 1:15-16

He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.

Revelation 13:2-7

The beast I saw looked like a leopard. His feet were like the feet of a bear. His mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.

Revelation 17:2-4

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

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Summary

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Bible References

Wherefore

Job 12:6
The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.
Psalm 17:10
They have no feeling. Their mouths have spoken arrogantly.
Psalm 73:3
I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.
Jeremiah 12:1
Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?
Habakkuk 1:15
He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.

Mighty

Psalm 37:35
I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.
Daniel 4:17
The decision is by the decree of the watchers. The sentence by the word of the holy ones! It is to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets over it the lowest of men.
Revelation 13:2
The beast I saw looked like a leopard. His feet were like the feet of a bear. His mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.