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Summary
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
The wicked
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They perish
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The wicked
Proverbs 28:12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
Butwhen the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
But
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,
But when a wicked man rules, people groan.
But when a wicked man rules, people groan.
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Job 24:4 “They push the needy aside from the road;
Thepoor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.
The
They perish
Esther 8:17
In each and every province and in each and every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.
Acts 12:23
And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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Acts 12:24
But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.