Do the wicked live long? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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The wicked live long and prosper.

Job 21:7 View context

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

The wicked neither live long nor prosper.

Psalm 55:23 View context

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Proverbs 10:27 View context

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 24:20 View context

For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 View context

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Jeremiah 23:19 View context

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Nahum 1:3 View context

The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.