Bible Verses About Death: Of the wicked

Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.

His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.

When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.

And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.

A Psalme of David. Fret not thy selfe because of the wicked men, neither be enuious for the euill doers.

For they shall soone bee cut downe like grasse, and shall wither as the greene herbe.

For euill doers shalbe cut off, and they that wait vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the land.

Therefore yet a litle while, and the wicked shall not appeare, and thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be found.

I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

Yet he passed away, and loe, he was gone, and I sought him, but he could not be founde.

That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, and leaue their riches for others.

He shall enter into the generation of his fathers, and they shall not liue for euer.

Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.