Bible Verses About Wicked: God's mercy to

For God speaketh once or twise, and one seeth it not.

In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,

Then he openeth the eares of men, euen by their corrections, which he had sealed,

That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man,

And keepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life should not passe by the sword.

He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,

So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.

If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,

Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.

Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.

He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes.

He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,

He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Lo, all these things will God worke twise or thrise with a man,

That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.