Happiness of the Wicked, The
Is limited to this life -- Ps 17:14; Lu 16:25. Is short -- Job 20:5. Is uncertain -- Lu 12:20; Jas 4:13,14. Is vain -- Ec 2:1; 7:6. Is derived from Their wealth. -- Job 21:13; Ps 52:7. Their power. -- Job 21:7; Ps 37:35. Their worldly prosperity. -- Ps 17:14; 73:3,4,7. Popular applause. -- Ac 12:22. Gluttony. -- Isa 22:13; Hab 1:16. Drunkenness. -- Isa 5:11; 56:12. Vain pleasure. -- Job 21:12; Isa 5:12. Successful oppression. -- Hab 1:15; Jas 5:6. Marred by jealousy -- Es 5:13. Often interrupted by judgments -- Nu 11:33; Job 15:21; Ps 73:18-20; Jer 25:10-11. Leads to sorrow -- Pr 14:13. Leads to recklessness -- Isa 22:13. Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints -- Ps 73:3,16; Jer 12:1; Hab 1:13. Saints often permitted to see the end of -- Ps 73:17-20. Envy not -- Ps 37:1. Woe against -- Am 6:1; Lu 6:25. Illustrated -- Ps 37:35,36; Lu 12:16-20; 16:19-25. Exemplified Israel. -- Nu 11:33. Haman. -- Es 5:9-11. Belshazzar. -- Da 5:1. Herod. -- Ac 12:21-23.