Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

we call.

Malachi 4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

Esther 5:10 But dissembling his anger, and returning into his house, he called together to him his friends, and Zares his wife:

Psalm 10:3 For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

Psalm 49:18 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

Psalm 73:12 Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

Daniel 4:30,37 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Daniel 5:20-28 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away. . . .

Acts 12:21 And upon a day appointed, Herod being arrayed in kingly apparel, sat in the judgment seat and made an oration to them.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

yea.

Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Job 21:7-15,30 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? . . .

Proverbs 12:12 The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .

Jeremiah 12:1,2 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? . . .

Habakkuk 1:13-17 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself? . . .

set.

Job 22:23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

they that tempt.

Numbers 14:22,23 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, . . .

Daniel 6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of the lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God, whom thou always servest, he will deliver thee.

Psalm 78:18,41,56 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. . . .

Psalm 95:9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Psalm 106:14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Matthew 4:6,7 And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone. . . .

Acts 5:9 And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband are at the door: and they shall carry thee out,

1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

Hebrews 3:9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,