Bible Verses About Wicked

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.