Bible Verses About Wicked: Prosperity of

I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.

He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.

That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.

Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.