Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 92:12

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 92:12 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 92:12. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the Psalmist, good people will grow strong and healthy like big, tall trees. Just like palm trees and cedar trees that stand firm and tall, good people will also stand strong and do well.

Psalms 92:12: The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

It questions why the wicked prosper, unlike Psalms 92:12 which suggests the righteous will flourish like a palm tree.

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]

Contradiction with Malachi 3:15

It says that those who do wickedness are set up and prosper, which contrasts with Psalms 92:12's promise of flourishing for the righteous.

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

Contradiction with Proverbs 13:23

It implies that justice is not always served and the poor may lose their due, which contrasts with the righteous flourishing as stated in Psalms 92:12.

Proverbs 13:23: Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

It observes that events happen to the righteous as if they were wicked, contradicting the confident flourishing for the righteous in Psalms 92:12.

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.
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