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 [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
Psalm 17:10
They have shut off their calloused [heart]; [with] their mouth they speak arrogantly.
Psalm 73:3
because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1
You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
Habakkuk 1:15
He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
Mighty
Psalm 37:35
I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.
Daniel 4:17
The sentence [is] by [the] decree of [the] watchers, and the decision [by] [the] command of [the] holy [ones], {in order that} the living will know that the Most High [is] sovereign over [the] kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever} he wills he gives it, and he [even] sets [the] humblest of men over it."
Revelation 13:2
And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, and its feet [were] like a bear's, and its mouth [was] like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."