Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

16Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

Job 1:22In all this Job did not sin, nor foolishly accuse God.

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

Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise thee, when thou do well for thyself),

Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18

Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 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? 15 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… Read the whole commentary →

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