The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.
Cross References
Psalm 55:10Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
Psalm 55:11Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
Isaiah 32:5No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
Treasury of Scripture
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
wicked
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
when
Judges 9:18
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
1 Samuel 18:17,18
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him…
Esther 3:6
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
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Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
