Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Bible References

Wherefore

Job 12:6
At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Psalm 17:10
Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Psalm 73:3
The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.
Habakkuk 1:15
Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

Mighty

Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
Daniel 4:17
by the decree of the sifters is the sentence, and by the saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men He doth raise up over it.
Revelation 13:2
and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'