“The fact that the wicked often seem to profit and do very well in this life may fill us with questions: ‘Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?’ (Malachi 3:14.)
“Yet is it not true that ‘the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment’? (Job 20:5.) The Lord Himself confirmed that those who follow the ways of man have ‘joy in their works [but] for a season.’ (3 Nephi 27:11.)” (Maxwell, Men and Women of Christ, 116–17).