Do evildoers prosper? View all View original

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

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Those who do evil prosper.

Job 12:6 View context

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].

Psalm 73:3-7 View context

For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Jeremiah 12:1 View context

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?

Those who do evil are made desolate.

Psalm 34:21 View context

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.