The Happiness of the Wicked

20 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Belshazzar

Daniel 5:1 Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Esther 5:9–11 That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. …

Acts 12:21–23 On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people. …

Psalm 37:35–36 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, …
Luke 12:16–20 Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance. …
Luke 16:19–25 Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor. …

Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

Isaiah 22:13 But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Esther 5:13 Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
Job 15:21 Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
Psalm 73:18–20 Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. …
Jeremiah 25:10–11 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. …

Psalm 73:3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 73:16 When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Habakkuk 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Amos 6:1 Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Luke 6:25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.