Malachi 3:15

And now, we are declaring the proud blessed, || Indeed, those doing wickedness have been built up, || Indeed, they have tempted God, and escape.

Literal Standard 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

14You have said, A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, || Because of YHWH of Hosts?

16Then have those fearing YHWH spoken to one another, || And YHWH attends and hears, || And a scroll of memorial is written before Him || Of those fearing YHWH, || And of those esteeming His Name.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22for all the men who are seeing My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice—

Job 1:22In all this Job has not sinned, nor given folly to God.

Job 21:7Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.

Job 22:23If you return to the Mighty you are built up, || You put iniquity far from your tents.

Psalms 49:18For he blesses his soul in his life || (And they praise you when you do well for yourself).

Psalms 73:12Behold, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, || They have increased strength.

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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