Bible Verses About Wicked

For his own feet plunge him into a net, he wanders into its meshes.

A trap grabs him by the heel, a snare catches hold of him.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground; pitfalls lie in his path.

Terrors overwhelm him on every side and scatter about his feet.

"Trouble is hungry for him, calamity ready for his fall;

disease eats away at his skin; the first stages of death devour him gradually.

What he relied on will be torn from his tent, and he will be marched before the king of terrors.

"What isn't his at all will live in his tent; sulfur will be scattered on his home.

His roots beneath him will dry up; above him, his branch will wither.

Memory of him will fade from the land, while abroad his name will be unknown.

He will be pushed from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

"Without son or grandson among his people, no one will remain in his dwellings.

Those who come after will be appalled at his fate, just as those there before were struck with horror.

"This is how things are in the homes of the wicked, and this is the place of those who don't know God."

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.