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Malachi 3:15

So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

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ASV

and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְעַתָּ֕הve.'a.Tahand thereforeH6258 →
אֲנַ֖חְנוּ'a.Nach.nuweH587 →
מְאַשְּׁרִ֣יםme.'a.she.Rim[are] calling blessedH833 →
זֵדִ֑יםze.Dimarrogant [people]H2086 →
גַּם־gam-bothH1571 →
נִבְנוּ֙niv.Nuthey have been built upH1129 →
עֹשֵׂ֣י'o.Sei[those who] doH6213 →
רִשְׁעָ֔הrish.'Ah<of> wickednessH7564 →
גַּ֧םgamas well asH1571 →
בָּחֲנ֛וּba.cha.Nuthey have testedH974 →
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.HimGodH430 →
וַיִּמָּלֵֽטוּ׃vai.yi.ma.Le.tuand they have escapedH4422 →

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Isaiah 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.Matthew 4:7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.Mark 8:11Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.Jeremiah 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.Luke 4:12But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”Job 21:7–15Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?Ecclesiastes 9:2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tentsMatthew 4:6–7“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.Amos 9:10All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”Exodus 17:2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”Psalms 58:2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

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Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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