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

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The 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

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

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

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Why do the wicked live on,
    growing old and increasing in power?(A)

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37 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

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Psalm 37[a]

Of David.

Do not fret because of those who are evil
    or be envious(A) of those who do wrong;(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the stanzas of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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

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

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

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15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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15 But now we call the arrogant(A) blessed. Certainly evildoers(B) prosper,(C) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”

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