Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Wherefore
Bible References
Wherefore
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1
Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Mighty
Psalm 37:35
I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Daniel 4:17
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, 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 up over i
Revelation 13:2
And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard. And its feet were like a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and those who inhabit the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.