"...the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous." Prov.13:22
This proverb is no doubt based on something that king Solomon saw in real life. It was not wealth gotten by evil schemes that caught his attention. It was good money gathered or earned by evil people that he noticed. It is not because God is unjust. It is that God keeps good books. And all the wealth of the world is God's. It is those who chose to love money instead of loving God that is unjust. They probably did not pay their tithe much less give offerings. It will pain the heart of the covetous on that day when their wealth is transferred to someone who will honor God with it.
"but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give it to him who is good before God." Eccl.2:26.
It's funny that seeing wealth earned by the wicked to give it to the righteous offended Solomon. He called this vanity and grasping for the wind. Evidently Solomon was a grasping kind of man.
The Christian life is not just pie in the sky, in the sweet by and by. It is seeing the goodness of God in the land of the living. Amen!
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