1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The prophet doubts not but it would be of use to others to know what had passed between God and his soul, what temptations he had been assaulted with and how he had got over them; and therefore he here tells us, I. What liberty he humbly took, and was graciously allowed him, to reason with God concerning his judgments, Jer. 12:1. He is about to plead with God, not to quarrel with him, or find faul…
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