Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 34:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 34:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 34:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to David, God wants us to try and know that He is good and kind. When someone trusts in God, their life is filled with happiness and blessings.

Psalms 34:8: O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.

Contradiction with Job 21:7

Job questions why the wicked live and prosper, which contradicts the idea that trust in and tasting the Lord is always good.

Job 21:7: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

This verse observes that sometimes righteous people get what the wicked deserve and vice versa, challenging the notion that those who trust in God always experience goodness.

Ecclesiastes 8:14: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Jeremiah complains about the prosperity of the wicked, which contradicts the idea that tasting and trusting the Lord results in inherent goodness.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]
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