Happiness of the Wicked, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 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?’

• James 4:13 NT

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

• James 4:14 NT

  Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

• 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 73:3 OT

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:4 OT

  For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

• Psalms 73:7 OT

  Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

• Acts 12:22 NT

  The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

• 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.

• James 5:6 NT

  You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.