Bible Verses About Death: Of the wicked

"Don't you know that ever since time began, ever since humans were placed on earth,

that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,

to make them like straw in the wind, like chaff carried off by a storm?

One person dies in his full strength, completely at ease and content;

his pails are full of milk, and the marrow in his bones is moist.

Another dies with embittered heart, never having tasted happiness.

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them both.

He may lie down rich, but his wealth yields nothing; when he opens his eyes, it isn't there.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; at night a whirlwind steals him away.

The east wind carries him off, and he's gone; it sweeps him far from his place.

Yes, it hurls itself at him, sparing nothing; he does all he can to flee from its power.

[People] clap their hands at him in derision and hiss him out of his home.

By David: Don't be upset by evildoers or envious of those who do wrong,

for soon they will wither like grass and fade like the green in the fields.

For evildoers will be cut off, but those hoping in ADONAI will inherit the land.

Soon the wicked will be no more; you will look for his place, and he won't be there.

I have seen a wicked man wielding great power, flourishing like a shade tree in its native soil.

But I passed by again, and he was no longer there; I looked for him, but he could not be found.

to have him live on eternally and never see the pit.

For he can see that wise men will die, likewise the fool and the brute will perish and leave their wealth to others.

but he will join his ancestors' generations and never again see light.

People, even rich ones, can fail to grasp that, like animals, they will die.

when I grew envious of the arrogant and saw how the wicked prosper.

For when their death comes, it is painless; and meanwhile, their bodies are healthy;