Bible Verses About Wicked

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

God lays up for their children [the punishment for their] iniquity. He should lay it on [the wicked] themselves, so that they can feel it!

Let their own eyes see their own destruction and themselves drink the wrath of Shaddai.

What joy can they have in their family after them, given that their months are numbered?

"Can anyone teach God knowledge? After all, he judges those who are on high.

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.

"Look, I know what you are thinking and your plans to do me wrong.

You ask, 'Where is the great man's house? Where is the tent where the wicked once lived?'

Haven't you ever questioned travelers? Don't you accept their testimony

that the evil man is saved on the day of disaster, rescued on the day of wrath?

So who will confront him with his ways? Who will repay him for what he has done?

For he is carried off to the grave, people keep watch over his tomb,

the clods of the valley are sweet to him; so everyone follows his example, just as before him were countless others.

Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?

"Learn to be at peace with [God]; in this way good will come [back] to you.

Please! Receive instruction from his mouth, and take his words to heart.

If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up. If you drive wickedness far from your tents,

if you lay your treasure down in the dust and the gold of Ofir among the rocks in the vadis,

and let Shaddai be your treasure and your sparkling silver;

then Shaddai will be your delight, you will lift up your face to God;

you will entreat him, and he will hear you, and you will pay what you vowed;

what you decide to do will succeed, and light will shine on your path;