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 are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
Psalm 17:10
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Habakkuk 1:15
He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
Mighty
Psalm 37:35
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.
Daniel 4:17
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.'
Revelation 13:2
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk."