Bible Verses About The, Are Compared To Wicked

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

¶ The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

¶ As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

¶ Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.