15 Bible Verses about Prosperity Of The Wicked
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Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.read more.
Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pains in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.read more.
Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with abundance: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Is it good unto you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile upon the counsel of the wicked?
You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
