Verse 12

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:11 : 11 And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.
  • Ps 37:18-19 : 18 Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is -- to the age. 19 They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • Prov 1:32-33 : 32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. 33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And `is' quiet from fear of evil!'
  • Eccl 3:14 : 14 I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.
  • Isa 65:20-24 : 20 There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed. 21 And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit. 22 They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree `are' the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones. 23 They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah `are' they, And their offspring with them. 24 And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
  • Matt 25:41-46 : 41 Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; 42 for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; 43 a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. 44 `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? 45 `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' not to one of these, the least, ye did `it' not to me. 46 And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 And His kindness `is' to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,
  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous.
  • Isa 65:13-14 : 13 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed, 14 Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.
  • Eccl 7:18 : 18 `It is' good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.
  • Ps 96:9 : 9 Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the honour of holiness, Be afraid of His presence, all the earth.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.
  • Ps 115:13 : 13 He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great.
  • Deut 12:25 : 25 thou dost not eat it, in order that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-9 : 5 `And also, thou hast known that which he did to me -- Joab son of Zeruiah -- that which he did to two heads of the hosts of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether -- that he slayeth them, and maketh the blood of war in peace, and putteth the blood of war in his girdle, that `is' on his loins, and in his sandals that `are' on his feet; 6 and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol. 7 `And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite thou dost do kindness, and they have been among those eating at thy table, for so they drew near unto me in my fleeing from the face of Absalom thy brother. 8 `And lo, with thee `is' Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, and he reviled me -- a grievous reviling -- in the day of my going to Mahanaim; and he hath come down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swear to him by Jehovah, saying, I do not put thee to death by the sword; 9 and now, acquit him not, for a wise man thou `art', and thou hast known that which thou dost to him, and hast brought down his old age with blood to Sheol.'
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved,
  • 1 Kgs 22:34-35 : 34 And a man hath drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smiteth the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he saith to his charioteer, `Turn thy hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.' 35 And the battle increaseth on that day, and the king hath been caused to stand in the chariot, over-against Aram, and he dieth in the evening, and the blood of the wound runneth out unto the midst of the chariot,
  • 1 Chr 16:30 : 30 Be pained before Him, all the earth: