Bible Verses About Wicked: Prosperity of

I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.

The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.

A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

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

When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

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

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.

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

Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.

This their way vttereth their foolishnes: yet their posteritie delite in their talke. Selah.

Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.