...that the author of the book of Job shews how obstinate was the controversy called forth by the problem of the Suffering of the Righteous and the Prosperity of the Wicked. Elsewhere, eg in Ps. xxxvii and Ps. Ixxiii, the doubts which are raised seem quickly to be laid to...

...problems which disturbed the mind of the pious Hebrew under the old dispensation, was the double one of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked. We meet with it in many of the psalms ; it is the special problem of the Book of Job. With the vision...

...the Old Testament. There another world is not called in to redress the balance of this ; the solution of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked is not found in any reversal of fate after death. But during the last two centuries BC, the period...

...which it furnished through the ages in the defense of justice, suggesting that the seeming injustice of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked is balanced up, respectively, by the sins or the merits of past generations. Instead of the principle...

...Another problem which was created by the miseries of the people which culminated in the Exile was that of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked (pp. 92. 94). Touched upon by Jeremiah (12 1), it is explicitly discussed by Habakkuk ; it is the subject...

...of Psalm xvii. 15. There are certain Psalms which definitely set themselves to unravel the problem of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked. These call for examination. In Psalm xxxvii the poet takes his stand upon the contention that the moral...

...more vexatious. I Icncc the question of ¡o!> and Jeremiah. The first attempt to solve the problem of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked was to project the idea of reward and punishment into thn future. If retribution was not immediately...

...of Job and Ecclesiastes we must turn to find the maturer reflection of Israel's wise on the enigmas of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked (see the comment on 2:20-22). Nevertheless, we must not forget that these proverbs are connected with...

...salvation history or centered on its national destiny. Instead, they focus on the more general human issue of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked. And this question inevitably evokes a posture of cynicism and hopelessness. For if God's justice fails,...

...the just and unjust"86. He aligns these providential blessings without favoritism with the reality of the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked in the present age87. These phenomena demonstrate the absence of God's retributive judgment. Irenaeus...