Psalms 73:12

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Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree, they increase in wealth.

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  • Ps 52:7 : 7 But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
  • Jer 5:17 : 17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease? 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are near to their lips but far from their hearts.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually. 8 Canaan, in whose hands are deceitful scales, loves to defraud.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 By your hand, Lord, save me from people of this world whose reward is in this life. Fill their bellies with what you have stored up; let their children be satisfied, and let them leave their wealth to their little ones.
  • Ps 37:35 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree.
  • Ps 49:6 : 6 Why should I fear in evil days, when iniquity surrounds me, at my heels?

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  • Ps 73:3-8
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    3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4 They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.

    5 They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.

    6 Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment.

    7 Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

    8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.

  • Job 12:6
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    6 "The tents of robbers are at ease, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their own hand."

  • Ps 52:6-7
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    76%

    6 You love all words that destroy, O deceitful tongue.

    7 But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 73:11
    75%

    11 They say, 'How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?'

  • Job 21:7
    73%

    7 Why do the wicked live on, grow old, and increase in power?

  • Jer 12:1
    72%

    1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease?

  • Ps 49:6
    72%

    6 Why should I fear in evil days, when iniquity surrounds me, at my heels?

  • Job 21:16
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    16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Ps 1:4-6
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    72%

    4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.

    5 Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

    6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

  • Job 18:21
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    21 Surely these are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of one who does not know God.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Mal 3:15
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    15 Now we call the proud blessed, for those who do evil prosper, and those who test God escape.'

  • Prov 11:31
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    31 If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

  • Ps 10:2-3
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    71%

    2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

    3 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28 When the wicked rise, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.

  • Job 22:18-19
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    18 Yet it was He who filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them.

  • Prov 13:7
    71%

    7 One pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor yet has great wealth.

  • Ps 73:13
    71%

    13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

  • Ps 12:8
    70%

    8 You, LORD, will keep them; you will protect them from this generation forever.

  • Ps 92:7
    70%

    7 A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:

  • Prov 21:12
    70%

    12 The righteous one considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked down to ruin.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13 Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

  • Eccl 5:11
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    11 The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits them no sleep.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10 The wicked will see it and be angry; they will gnash their teeth and melt away. The desires of the wicked will perish.

  • Prov 11:4
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    4 Riches do not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Job 27:13
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    13 This is the portion allocated by God to a wicked man, the inheritance ruthless men will receive from the Almighty:

  • Ps 112:3
    70%

    3 Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

  • Ps 62:10
    70%

    10 Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

  • Eccl 7:15
    69%

    15 In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

  • Ps 37:10
    69%

    10 In a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7 The wicked are overthrown and no more, but the house of the righteous stands firm.

  • Job 34:8
    69%

    8 He walks in company with evildoers and associates with the wicked.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.

  • Ps 69:27
    69%

    27 For they persecute those you have struck, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

  • Ps 36:1
    69%

    1 To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David.

  • Prov 28:12
    68%

    12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.

  • Ps 37:35
    68%

    35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree.