Job 5:3

Eliphaz's Response Continues

² For anger kills a fool,
and jealousy slays the gullible.
³ I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
⁴ His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.

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Psalm 37:35-36

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

Psalm 73:18-20

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

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

Job 24:18

They float on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.

Job 27:8

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

Psalm 69:25

Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.

Psalm 73:3-9

For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

Jeremiah 12:1-3

You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Acts 1:20

“For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

Let his dwelling become desolate;
let no one live in it; and
Let someone else take his position.