'Wicked' in the Bible

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

“For He recognizes and knows false and worthless men,And He sees wickedness, will He not consider it?

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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

“For the wicked is thrown into a net by his own feet (wickedness),And he steps on the webbing [of the lattice-covered pit].

“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened,And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].

“The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below,And above, his branch is cut off and withers.

“Those in the west are astonished and appalled at his fate,And those in the east are seized with horror.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

“You say, ‘God stores away [the punishment of] man’s wickedness for his children.’Let God repay him so that he may know and experience it.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,

“Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?

The wicked displace boundary markers.They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.They do not recognize its waysor stay on its paths.

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

“I will teach you regarding the hand (power) of God;I will not conceal what is with the Almighty [God’s actual treatment of the wicked].

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

“He lies down rich, but never will again;He opens his eyes, and it is gone.

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

Then they cry out -- but he does not answer -- because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Job uselessly opens his mouthAnd multiplies words without knowledge [drawing the worthless conclusion that the righteous have no more advantage than the wicked].”

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.