Malachi 3:15

Therefore we call the proud happy; Yea, they that do wickedness are built up; Yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.”

Noyes Bible

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 a vain thing to serve God”; And, “What profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, And that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

16Then they that feared Jehovah spake to one another, And Jehovah gave ear and heard; And a book of remembrance was written before him, For them that feared Jehovah, And that thought upon his name.

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Cross References

Job 1:22In all this Job sinned not, nor uttered vain words against God.

Job 21:7Why is it that the wicked live, Grow old, yea, become mighty in substance?

Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; If thou put away iniquity from thy tent.

Psalms 49:18Though in his life he thought himself happy,—Though men praised thee, while thou wast in prosperity,—

Psalms 73:12Behold these are the ungodly! Yet they are ever prosperous; they heap up 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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