- 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
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Happiness of the Wicked, the
The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.