Happiness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Psalms 17:14 OT

  from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

• Luke 16:25 NT

  “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

• Job 20:5 OT

  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

• Luke 12:20 NT

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

• Ecclesiastes 2:1 OT

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 7:6 OT

  For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

• Job 21:13 OT

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Psalms 52:7 OT

  “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

• Job 21:7 OT

  “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

• Psalms 37:35 OT

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

• Psalms 37:3 OT

  Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

• Psalms 37:4 OT

  Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

• Psalms 37:7 OT

  Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

• Isaiah 22:13 OT

  and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

• Habakkuk 1:16 OT

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Isaiah 5:11 OT

  Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 56:12 OT

  “Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

• Job 21:12 OT

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Isaiah 5:12 OT

  The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

• Habakkuk 1:15 OT

  He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

• Esther 5:13 OT

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• Numbers 11:33 OT

  While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

• Job 15:21 OT

  A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

• Psalms 73:18-20 OT

  Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their…