Job 20:5

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

⁴ Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man was placed on earth,
⁵ the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
⁶ Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,

Twinkling of an Eye

Job

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen a wicked, violent man
well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.

Exodus 15:9-10

The enemy said:
“I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil.
My desire will be gratified at their expense.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.”

Judges 16:21-30

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

Esther 5:11-12

Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.

Esther 7:10

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

Job 5:3

I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

Job 8:12-13

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Job 8:19

Surely this is the joy of his way of life;
yet others will sprout from the dust.

Job 15:29-34

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.
His possessions will not increase in the land.

Job 18:5-6

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;
the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 27:8

For what hope does the godless man have when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?

Job 27:13-23

This is a wicked man’s lot from God,
the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Psalm 73:18-20

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Matthew 13:20-21

And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Acts 12:22-23

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

Galatians 6:4

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

James 4:16

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.