Job 12:6

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⁶The tents of marauders are undisturbed,^(A)
and those who provoke God are secure^(B)—
those God has in his hand.^[a]

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Footnotes

Job 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand

Job 12:6 in all English translations

Psalm 37:35

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³⁵I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing^(A) like a luxuriant native tree,

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Psalm 73:3

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³For I envied^(A) the arrogant
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.^(B)

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Ecclesiastes 8:14

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¹⁴There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve.^(A) This too, I say, is meaningless.^(B)

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Jeremiah 12:1-2

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,^(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case^(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:^(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?^(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?
²You have planted^(E) them, and they have taken root;
    they grow and bear fruit.^(F)
You are always on their lips
    but far from their hearts.^(G)

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Malachi 3:14-15

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¹⁴“You have said, ‘It is futile^(A) to serve^(B) God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements^(C) and going about like mourners^(D) before the Lord Almighty? ¹⁵But now we call the arrogant^(E) blessed. Certainly evildoers^(F) prosper,^(G) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”