Jeremiah 12:1 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ UNCOMPROMISINGLY RIGHTEOUS and rigidly just are You, O Lord, when I complain against and contend with You. Yet let me plead and reason the case with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all they at ease and thriving who deal very treacherously and deceitfully?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Common English Bible

¹ If I took you to court, LORD, you would win. But I still have questions about your justice. Why do guilty persons enjoy success? Why are evildoers so happy?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why is it well with all them that transgress and do wickedly?

English Standard Version 2016

¹ Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 12:1 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do this thing, and to kill the just with the impious, and for the just to be treated like the impious. No, this is not like you. You judge all the earth; you would never make such a judgment."

Ezra 9:15

O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just. For we have been left behind to be saved, just as it is this day. Behold, we are before your sight in our offense. And it is not possible to withstand you in this matter."

Nehemiah 9:33

For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously.

Job 12:6

The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.

Job 13:3

Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,

Job 24:12

In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.

Job 24:23

God has given him a place for repentance, and he abuses it with arrogance, but his eyes are upon his ways.

Job 8:17

His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

Psalm 37:1

A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.

Psalm 51:4

All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

Psalm 51:6

You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

Psalm 92:7

Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days.

Proverbs 1:32

The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are the just, to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the impious. And there are the impious, who are very secure, as though they possess the deeds of the just. But this, too, I judge to be a very great vanity.

Isaiah 41:21

Bring your case forward, says the Lord. Bring it here, if you have anything to allege, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 48:8

You have neither heard, nor known, nor were your ears open in that time. For I knew that you would transgress greatly, and so I called you a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 11:20

But you, O Lord of hosts, who judges justly, and who tests the temperament and the heart, let me see your vengeance against them. For I have revealed my case to you.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: 'You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.' "

Jeremiah 3:20

But, in the same way that a woman spurns her lover, so also has the house of Israel spurned me, says the Lord."

Jeremiah 3:7

And when she had done all these things, I said: 'Return to me.' But she did not return. And her deceitful sister Judah saw this:

Jeremiah 32:16

And after I had delivered the deed of possession to Baruch, the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.

Lamentations 1:18

SADE. The Lord is just, for it is I who has provoked his mouth to wrath. I beg all people to listen and to see my sorrow. My virgins and my youths have gone into captivity.

Ezekiel 18:25

And you have said, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' Therefore, listen, O house of Israel. How could it be that my way is not fair? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?

Daniel 9:14

And the Lord kept watch over the evil and has led it over us; the Lord, our God, is just in all his works, which he has accomplished, for we have not listened to his voice.

Daniel 9:7

To you, O Lord, is justice, but to us is confusion of face, just as it is on this day for the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, for those who are near and those who are far off, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of their iniquities by which they have sinned against you.

Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; in this, they have been dishonest with me.

Habakkuk 1:4

Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.

Zephaniah 3:5

The just Lord is in their midst; he will not do iniquity. In the morning, in the morning, he will bring his judgment into the light, and it will not be hidden. But the impious one has not known shame.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your speeches, and you have said, "In what way, have we wearied him?" In that you say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and such as these please him," or certainly, "Where is the God of judgment?"

Malachi 3:15

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."

Deuteronomy 32:4

The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.