Psalms 73:12

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 52:7 : 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
  • Jer 5:17 : 17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. 8 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
  • Ps 37:35 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
  • Ps 49:6 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

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  • Ps 73:3-8
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    3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

    5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

    6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

    7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

    8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

  • Job 12:6
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    6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

  • Ps 52:6-7
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    6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

    7"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Ps 73:11
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    11They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

  • Job 21:7
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    7"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

  • Jer 12:1
    72%

    1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

  • Ps 49:6
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    6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

  • Job 21:16
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    16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Ps 1:4-6
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    4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

    5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Job 18:21
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    21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Mal 3:15
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    15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

  • Prov 11:31
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    31Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!

  • Ps 10:2-3
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    2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

    3For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

  • Job 22:18-19
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    18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Ps 73:13
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    13Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

  • Ps 12:8
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    8The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

  • Eccl 5:11
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    11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Job 27:13
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    13"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

  • Ps 112:3
    70%

    3Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

  • Ps 62:10
    70%

    10Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

  • Ps 37:10
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    10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • Job 34:8
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    8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

  • Ps 36:1
    69%

    1An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

  • Prov 28:12
    68%

    12When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

  • Ps 37:35
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    35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.