Bible Verses About Wicked

Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.

Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.

His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,

He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.

He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.