Job 12:6, 21:7-12, Psa 73:12, 18-20, Jer 12:1-2, Mal 3:15, 4:1 | ESV | STEP | The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure , who bring their god in their hand .

Job 12:6

6 ^aThe tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}

Job 21:7-12

7 ^cWhy do the wicked live,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their ^doffspring are established in their presence,
and their descendants before their eyes.
9 Their houses are ^esafe from fear,
and ^fno rod of God is upon them.
10 Their bull breeds without fail;
their cow calves and ^gdoes not miscarry.
11 They send out their ^hlittle boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
12 They sing to ⁱthe tambourine and ^jthe lyre
and rejoice to the sound of ^kthe pipe.

Psalms 73:12

12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they ^lincrease in riches.

Psalms 73:18-20

18 Truly you set them in ^mslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ⁿin a moment,
swept away utterly by ^oterrors!
20 Like ^pa dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ^qyou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Jeremiah’s Complaint

1 ^rRighteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
^sWhy does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all ^twho are treacherous thrive?
2 You plant them, and they take root;
they grow and produce fruit;
^uyou are near in their mouth
and far from their heart.

Malachi 3:15

15 And now we call ^vthe arrogant blessed. ^wEvildoers not only prosper but ^xthey put God to the test and they escape.’”

Malachi 4:1

The Great Day of the Lord

1 ^{▼▼Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew} “For behold, ^zthe day is coming, ^aaburning like an oven, when ^aball the arrogant and ^acall evildoers ^adwill be stubble. The day that is coming ^aeshall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.