Job 12:6

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

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

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.