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, in whatever God brings to their hand.
Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly,
Psalm 73:3
For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O Jehovah, that I might contend with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal treacherously?
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine; therefore he rejoices and exults.
Mighty
Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.
Daniel 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so 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 it the lowest of men.
Revelation 13:2
And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like those of a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him its power and its seat and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.