WICKED, Prosperity of

Job 5:3-5

3. I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Job 12:6

6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 15:21-29

21. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26. He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27. Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28. And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

Job 20:5-22

5. That the triumphing of the WICKED is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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

9. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

10. His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

12. Though WICKEDness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

13. Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

16. He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

17. He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

18. That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

19. Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

20. Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

21. There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

22. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the WICKED shall come upon him.

Job 21:7-13

7. Wherefore do the WICKED live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

8. Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

12. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.