Psalm 73:6

God's Ways Vindicated

⁵ They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace;
The garment of violence covers them.
⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness; they easily obtain the desires of their heart.

For This Cause

Psalm 109:18

As he clothed himself with the curse like as with his garment, and it entered into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.

Judges 8:26

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, without the ornaments and collars and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian and without the chains that were about their camels' necks.

Proverbs 1:9

For they shall be an increase of grace unto thy head and protection about thy neck.

Genesis 41:42

Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck;

Deuteronomy 8:13-14

and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.

Esther 3:1

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Esther 3:5-6

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not kneel or worship before him, then Haman was filled with wrath.

Esther 5:9-11

Then Haman went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate and that he did not stand up nor move for him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.

Job 21:7-15

Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

Psalm 109:29

Let those who speak evil against me falsely be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle.

Proverbs 3:31

Envy thou not the oppressor and choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Song of Songs 4:9

Thou hast taken hold of my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast imprisoned my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

Isaiah 3:19

the chains and the jewels and the bracelets,

Jeremiah 48:11

Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness and his arrogancy and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart.

Ezekiel 16:11

I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy arms and a chain on thy neck.

Ezekiel 28:2-5

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

Daniel 4:30

the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?

Micah 2:1-2

Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

Micah 3:5

Thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that does not give them something to eat, they even prepare war against him.

James 5:4-6

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, young people, be subject to the elders in such a manner that you are all subject to one another. Be clothed with humility of will, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.