Job 12:6, 21:7-15, Psa 37:1, 35, 73:3-28, 92:7, 94:3-4, Pro 1:32, Jer 5:28 | ESV | STEP | The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure , who bring their god in their hand .

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 21:7-15

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.
13 They ^lspend their days in prosperity,
and in ^mpeace they go down to ⁿSheol.
14 They say to God, ^o‘Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 ^pWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what ^qprofit do we get if we pray to him?’

Psalms 37:1

He Will Not Forsake His Saints

^{▼▼This psalm is an acrostic poem, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet} Of David.

1 ^sFret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not ^tenvious of wrongdoers!

Psalms 37:35

35 ^uI have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
spreading himself like ^va green laurel tree. ^{▼▼The identity of this tree is uncertain}

Psalms 73:3-28

3 ^xFor I was ^yenvious of the arrogant
when I saw the ^zprosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs until death;
their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not ^aastricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is ^abtheir necklace;
violence covers them as ^aca garment.
7 Their ^adeyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and ^aespeak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find ^afno fault in them. ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them}
11 And they say, ^ah“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they ^aiincrease in riches.
13 All in vain have I ^ajkept my heart clean
and ^akwashed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been ^alstricken
and ^amrebuked ^anevery morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed ^aothe generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me ^apa wearisome task,
17 until I went into ^aqthe sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their ^arend.
18 Truly you set them in ^asslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ^atin a moment,
swept away utterly by ^auterrors!
20 Like ^ava dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ^awyou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was ^axbrutish and ignorant;
I was like ^aya beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you ^azhold my right hand.
24 You ^baguide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will ^bbreceive me to glory.
25 ^bcWhom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 ^bdMy flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is ^bethe strength ^{▼▼Hebrew rock} of my heart and my ^bgportion ^bhforever.
27 For behold, those who are ^bifar from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is ^bjunfaithful to you.
28 But for me it is good to ^bkbe near God;
I have made the Lord God my ^blrefuge,
that I may ^bmtell of all your works.

Psalms 92:7

7 that though ^bnthe wicked sprout like grass
and all ^boevildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

Psalms 94:3-4

3 O Lord, ^bphow long shall the wicked,
how long shall ^bqthe wicked exult?
4 They pour out their ^brarrogant words;
all ^bsthe evildoers boast.

Proverbs 1:32

32 For the simple are killed by ^bttheir turning away,
and ^buthe complacency of fools destroys them;

Jeremiah 5:28

28 ^bvthey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
^bwthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Job 12:6