that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.
I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.
And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.