Job 21:7

Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 12:3
But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Malachi 3:15
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

Job 36:6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

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Job 21:8
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4
For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Psalms 73:5
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Psalms 73:10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

Psalms 73:11
They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Psalms 37:7
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Psalms 92:7
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?

Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to 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.

Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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Job 24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

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Ezekiel 18:25
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Habakkuk 1:2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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Job 9:22
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

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Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

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Job 8:14
whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

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Job 31:2
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Psalms 38:20
They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

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Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

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Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

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Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.

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