Bible Verses About Wicked

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.