Do the wicked live long?
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Longevity enjoyed by the wicked

Job 21:7-8 View context

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

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


Psalms 17:14 View context

From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.


Ecclesiastes 8:12 View context

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:


Isaiah 65:20 View context

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Longevity denied to the wicked

Ecclesiastes 8:13 View context

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.


Psalms 55:23 View context

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.


Proverbs 10:27 View context

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.


Job 36:14 View context

They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.


Ecclesiastes 7:17 View context

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

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