Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.
Malachi 3:15 - Revised Standard Version Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.’ ” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And now we consider the proud and arrogant to be happy and favored; evildoers are exalted and prosper; yes, and when they test God, they escape [unpunished]. American Standard Version (1901) and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape. Common English Bible So now we consider the arrogant fortunate. Moreover, those doing evil are built up; they test God and escape.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we now call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved. |
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!
Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,
Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm.
There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
and the king said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and made an oration to them.
But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Hark, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”