Bible Verses About Wicked

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.

The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.

In the good of the righteous a city exulteth, And in the destruction of the wicked is singing.

By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness--a true reward.

Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil--for his own death.

An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.

The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.

Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked--deceit.

The words of the wicked are : `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.