Bible Verses About Wicked

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,