Job 20:5

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

⁴ Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon the earth, ⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? ⁶ Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds;

Twinkling of an Eye

Job

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Exodus 15:9-10

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Judges 16:21-30

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.

Esther 5:11-12

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things in which 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. Then was the king's wrath abated.

Job 5:3

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

Job 8:12-13

While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.

Job 8:19

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

Job 15:29-34

He shall not be rich, neither shall his wealth continue, neither shall he overspread the earth with it.

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 hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Job 27:13-23

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

Matthew 7:21

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

Matthew 13:20-21

But he that received the seed in stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

Acts 12:22-23

And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

Galatians 6:4

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

James 4:16

But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.