Bible Verses About Wicked

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 he crushed and abandoned the poor, seizing houses he did not build,

because his appetite would not let him rest, in his greed he let nothing escape;

nothing is left that he did not devour; therefore his well-being will not last.

With all needs satisfied, he will be in distress; the full force of misery will come over him.

"This is what will fill his belly! -[God] will lay on him all his burning anger and make it rain over him, into his insides.

If he flees from the weapon of iron, the bow of bronze will pierce him through

he pulls the arrow out of his back, the shining tip comes out from his innards; terrors come upon him.

"Total darkness is laid up for his treasures, a fire fanned by no one will consume him, and calamity awaits what is left in his tent.

The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

The income of his household will be carried off; his goods will flow away on the day of his wrath.

This is God's reward for the wicked, the heritage God decrees for him."

"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old and keep increasing their power?

They see their children settled with them, their posterity assured.

Their houses are safe, with nothing to fear; God's rod is not on them.

Their bulls are fertile without fail, their cows get pregnant and don't miscarry.

They produce flocks of babies, and their children dance around.

They sing with tambourines and lyres and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

"Yet to God they said, 'Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

Isn't their prosperity already theirs? The plans of the wicked are far from me.

"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,