Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked: Put in slippery places

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.

They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,