Job 20:5

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

⁴ Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth, ⁵ The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? ⁶ Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

Twinkling of an Eye

Job

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

Exodus 15:9-10

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.

Judges 16:21-30

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Esther 5:11-12

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.

Job 5:3

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 8:12-13

Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.

Job 8:19

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

Job 15:29-34

He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.

Job 18:5-6

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

Job 27:13-23

This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: --

Psalm 73:18-20

Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 13:20-21

But he that is sown on the rocky places this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

Acts 12:22-23

And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

Galatians 6:4

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

James 4:16

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.