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Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked: Put in slippery places

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Verses on Put in slippery places

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

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

  3. they don't have ordinary people's troubles, they aren't plagued like others.

  4. So for them, pride is a necklace; and violence clothes them like a robe.

  5. Their eyes peep out through folds of fat; evil thoughts overflow from their hearts.

  6. They scoff and speak with malice, they loftily utter threats.

  7. They set their mouths against heaven; their tongues swagger through the earth.

  8. Therefore his people return here and [thoughtlessly] suck up that whole cup of water.

  9. Then they ask, "How does God know? Does the Most High really have knowledge?"

  10. Yes, this is what the wicked are like; those free of misfortune keep increasing their wealth.

  11. It's all for nothing that I've kept my heart clean and washed my hands, staying free of guilt;

  12. for all day long I am plagued; my punishment comes every morning.

  13. If I had said, "I will talk like them,"I would have betrayed a generation of your children.

  14. When I tried to understand all this, I found it too hard for me -

  15. until I went into the sanctuaries of God and grasped what their destiny would be.

  16. Indeed, you place them on a slippery slope and make them fall to their ruin.

  17. How suddenly they are destroyed, swept away by terrors!