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


In Context

12 "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the Lord Almighty.

13 "You have said harsh things against me," says the Lord . "Yet you ask, 'What have we said against you?'

14 "You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?

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

16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

17 "They will be mine," says the Lord Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves 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 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:15Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

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.'