Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 because of the LORD of hosts?

16Then they that feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon His name.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22surely all those men that have seen My glory, and My signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to proof these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice;

Job 1:22For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.

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

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

Psalms 49:18(49-19) Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';

Psalms 73:12Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches.

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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