Malachi 3:15

And now we call the zedim (proud) happy; 1 yea, they that work rishah (wickedness) are set up; 1 yea, they that tempt Elohim even go free. 1

Orthodox Jewish 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: Avod Elohim is vain; 1 and what profit is it that we have been shomer over His mishmeret, 1 and that we have walked as mourners 1 before Hashem Tzva'os? 1

16Then they that feared Hashem 1 spoke often one to another; 1 and Hashem paid heed, and heard it, 1 and a Sefer Zikaron (book of remembrance) was written before Him 1 for them that feared Hashem, 1 and that meditated upon Shmo (His Name). 1

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22Because all those men which have seen My kavod, and My otot (miraculous signs), which I performed in Mitzrayim and in the midbar, and have tested Me now these ten times, and have not paid heed to My voice;

Job 1:22In all this Iyov sinned not, nor natan tiflah l'Elohim (charged G-d with folly).

Job 21:7Madu'a (why) do the resha'im live, 1 become old, yea, are mighty in power? 1

Job 22:23If thou return to Shaddai, 1 thou shalt be restored; 1 if thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy ohalim; 1

Psalms 49:18For in his mot (death), he shall carry nothing away; 1 his kavod (glory, wealth) shall not descend after him. 1

Psalms 73:12Hinei, these are the resha'im; 1 at ease olam, they increase in riches. 1

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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