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 houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.
Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speaketh proud things.
Psalm 73:3
And why? I was grieved at the wicked, to see the ungodly in such prosperity.
Jeremiah 12:1
O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness?
Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all with their angle, they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn: whereof they rejoice and are glad.
Mighty
Psalm 37:35
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Daniel 4:17
This errand of the watcher, is a commandment grounded and sought out, in the counsel of him that is most holy: to learn men for to understand, that the highest hath power over the kingdoms of men; and giveth them to whom it liketh him, and bringeth the very outcasts of men over them.'
Revelation 13:2
And the beast which I saw, was like a cat of the mountain, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his seat, and great authority:
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth have committed whoredom, and the inhabiters of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication."