Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
New American Standard Bible
So now we
King James Version
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Holman Bible
So now we consider the arrogant
International Standard Version
and, "Now we call the arrogant one blessed. Those who do evil prosper and those who challenge God escape the consequences.'"
A Conservative Version
And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.
American Standard Version
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
Amplified
So now we call the arrogant happy and blessed. Evildoers are exalted and prosper; and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].’”
Bible in Basic English
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
Julia Smith Translation
And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.
King James 2000
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"
Modern King James verseion
And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'
NET Bible
So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!'"
New Heart English Bible
Now we call the proud blessed; indeed, those who work wickedness prosper. They even tempt God and escape.'
The Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, we are pronouncing happy - the proud, - and, the doers of lawlessness have, even been built up, and, they who have put God to the proof, have even been delivered.
Webster
And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God are delivered.
World English Bible
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
Youngs Literal Translation
And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'
Themes
Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
Malachi » Reproves God's people for their impiety
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 3:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Overflowing Blessing
14 Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? 15 And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. 16 Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another; and Jehovah observed it, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
Names
Cross References
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Psalm 95:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Numbers 14:22-23
for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
Esther 5:10
But Haman controlled himself, and came home; and he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Job 12:6
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
Job 21:7-15
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
Psalm 49:18
Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Psalm 78:41
And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 78:56
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
Psalm 106:14
And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desireth the net of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
Jeremiah 7:10
then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, in order to do all these abominations!
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
Daniel 4:30
the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 4:37
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 5:20-28
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
Daniel 6:16
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will save thee.
Habakkuk 1:13-17
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Matthew 4:6-7
and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.
Acts 5:9
And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.
Acts 12:21
And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat of honour, Herod made a public oration to them.
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.
Hebrews 3:9
where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.