Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of a hypocrite will perish -

his confidence is mere gossamer, his trust a spider's web.

He can lean on his house, but it won't stand; he can hold on to it, but it won't last;

he will be like a vine that sheds its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that drops its flowers.

"For the community of the ungodly is sterile; fire consumes the tents of bribery.

"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?

His pride may mount to the heavens, his head may touch the clouds;

but he will vanish completely, like his own dung -those who used to see him will ask, 'Where is he?'

Like a dream he flies off and is not found again; like a vision in the night he is chased away.

The eye which once saw him will see him no more, his place will not behold him again.

His children will have to pay back the poor; his hands will restore their wealth.

His bones may be filled with [the vigor of] his youth, but it will join him lying in the dust.

"Wickedness may taste sweet in his mouth, he may savor and roll it around on his tongue,

he may linger over it and not let it go but keep it there in his mouth -

yet in his stomach his food goes bad, it works inside him like snake venom;

the wealth he swallows he vomits back up; God makes him disgorge it.

He sucks the poison of asps, the viper's fangs will kill him.

He will not enjoy the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and cream.

He will have to give back what he toiled for; he won't get to swallow it down -to the degree that he acquired wealth, he won't get to enjoy it.

For what hope does the godless have from his gain when God takes away his life?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Will he take delight in Shaddai and always call on God?

"This is God's reward for the wicked man, the heritage oppressors receive from Shaddai:

if his sons become many, they go to the sword; and his children never have enough to eat.