Job 24:24


“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Psalm 37:10


For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

Job 8:22


“Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the tents of the wicked will be no longer.”

Job 14:21


“His sons achieve honor, and he does not know it;
They become insignificant, and he is not aware of it.

Job 20:5


That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless is only for a moment?

Psalm 37:35-36


I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

Psalm 73:19


How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!

Psalm 92:7


That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 17:5-6


“And it will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears of grain;
Yes, it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the [fertile] Valley of Rephaim.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the midst of his pursuits, fade away.

James 5:1-3

Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you.

Revelation 14:14-20

Again I looked, and this is what I saw: a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp sickle [of swift judgment] in His hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Bible References

Are exalted

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless is only for a moment?
Psalm 37:10

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].
Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!
Psalm 92:7

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
James 1:11
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the midst of his pursuits, fade away.
James 5:1
Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you.

Cut off

Isaiah 17:5

“And it will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears of grain;
Yes, it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the [fertile] Valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
Again I looked, and this is what I saw: a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp sickle [of swift judgment] in His hand.