15 Bible Verses about Prosperity Of The Wicked

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.read more.
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.

O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.read more.
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?

And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.'"

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;