Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. He sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.
Malachi 3:15 - Tree of Life Version So now we are calling the proud blessed. Those who practice iniquity are built up. Indeed, they have tested God, and escaped!” 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. He sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.
The tents of marauders prosper, and there is security for those who provoke God— for those whom God brings in His hand.
that the wicked are spared for the day of calamity that they are brought to the day of wrath?
If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove iniquity far from your tent
For the wicked one boasts about his soul’s desire. The greedy one curses, reviling Adonai.
In the wilderness they craved ravenously, in the desert they tested God.
Let not my heart turn to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity, nor let me eat of their delicacies.
For when he dies he takes nothing away. His splendor will not follow him down.
Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”? Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
They put God to the test in their heart by demanding food for their craving.
Yet they tested and rebelled against El Elyon, and did not keep His decrees.
when your fathers tested Me, they challenged Me, even though they had seen My work.
The wicked covets the loot of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
There is another enigma that occurs upon the earth: there are righteous people who are requited according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are requited according to the work of the righteous. I said, “This also is meaningless.”
Stop trusting in mankind —whose breath is in his nose— for what is he really worth?
and then come and stand before Me in this house that bears My Name, saying, ‘We are saved!’—so that you may keep doing all these abominations?
Immediately the word about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from men, ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
Then these men came as a throng in to the king, and said to the king: “Remember, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or edict which the king issues may be altered.”
You wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you say: “How did we weary Him?” When you say: “Everyone doing evil is good in the sight of Adonai, and He delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
On an appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes and, taking his seat upon the throne, began to make a speech to them.
Then Peter said to her, “How did you agree to test the Ruach Adonai? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door—they will carry you out, too!”
And let’s not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were destroyed by serpents.
There your fathers put Me to the test, though they saw My works for forty years.
Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”