15Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.


In Context

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.

13 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

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

16 Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

17 And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

Malachi 3:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:15But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.' "

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God are delivered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:15And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'