Bible Verses About Wicked: Temporal punishment of

`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.

And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him--at his feet.

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.