6 eThe tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.1
14 from men by your hand, O Lord,
from men of the world whose portion is in this life.1
You fill their womb with treasure;2
they are satisfied with children,
and they leave their abundance to their infants.
He Will Not Forsake His Saints
1 Of David.
1 xFret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not yenvious of wrongdoers!
35 zI have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
spreading himself like a green laurel tree.1
3 bFor I was cenvious of the arrogant
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
7 that though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
Man Cannot Know God’s Ways
14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and mthere are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Jeremiah’s Complaint
1 Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
qWhy does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
2 You plant them, and they take root;
they grow and produce fruit;
you are rnear in their mouth
and far from their heart.
13 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
jwhy do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,1
and his food is rich.
14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”
