15 Bible Verses about Prosperity Of The Wicked
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Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power? Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe and without fear, and no rod of God is upon them.read more.
Their bull breeds without fail and their cow calves and never miscarries. They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around. 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 the grave.
I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger?
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, who else could it be?
I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy. They suffer no pain. Their bodies are healthy. They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued with problems like mankind.read more.
That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing. Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild. They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression. They set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue parades through the earth.
Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?
There is a futility that is done upon the earth. There are righteous men who get along as though they were wicked and there are wicked men who get along as though they were righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?
I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed?
We call arrogant people happy. Evil people test God's patience with their wicked deeds. They not only get away with it, they also prosper.
The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.
