Job 21:7
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
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Job 21:7
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
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Jeremiah 12:1
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
Job 12:6
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
Malachi 3:15
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.
Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
Job 36:6
His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
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Job 21:8
Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9
Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.
Job 21:10
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
Job 21:11
They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
Job 21:12
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Job 22:18
Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!
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Psalms 73:3
Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
Psalms 73:4
For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.
Psalms 73:5
They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.
Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
Psalms 73:8
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
Psalms 73:9
Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
Psalms 73:10
For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.
Psalms 73:11
And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?
Psalms 73:12
Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Psalms 37:1
Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
Psalms 37:7
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Psalms 92:7
When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
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Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Job 21:30
How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
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Job 24:1
Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?
Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
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Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
Romans 9:14
What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.
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Job 9:22
It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
Job 9:23
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
Job 9:24
The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
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Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
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Job 8:14
Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
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Job 31:2
For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
Psalms 38:20
They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
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Habakkuk 1:15
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
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Habakkuk 1:16
For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
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