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Malachi 3:15

PrideJusticeDoubt

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

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BSB
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
KJV
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
WEB
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
ASV
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
DARBY
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
BLB
And now we call blessed the arrogant. Also are raised up those doing wickedness; they even test God and escape.’”
ÅB
Og nå priser vi de overmodige lykkelige; ikke alene trives de vel de som lever ugudelig, men de har satt Gud på prøve og har allikevel sloppet fri.
OTB
Og nå anser vi de stolte som lykkelige; ja, de som gjør ondt, blir opphøyet, og de som utfordrer Gud, slipper unna.'"
B1930
Og nu priser vi de overmodige lykkelige; ikke alene trives de vel de som lever ugudelig, men de har satt Gud på prøve og har allikevel sloppet fri.

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 12:1–2

    Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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  • Job 21:7–15

    Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

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  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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  • Malachi 2:17

    Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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  • Job 22:23

    If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

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  • Matthew 4:6–7

    And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

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  • Psalms 78:41

    Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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