Proverbs 21:12
New Living Translation
12 The Righteous One[a] knows what is going on in the homes of the wicked;
he will bring disaster on them.
Footnotes
- 21:12 Or The righteous man.
Proverbs 14:11
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11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the godly will flourish.
Psalm 37:35-36
New Living Translation
35 I have seen wicked and ruthless people
flourishing like a tree in its native soil.
36 But when I looked again, they were gone!
Though I searched for them, I could not find them!
2 Peter 3:6-7
New Living Translation
6 Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. 7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
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2 Peter 2:4-9
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4 For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell,[a] in gloomy pits of darkness,[b] where they are being held until the day of judgment. 5 And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood. 6 Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. 7 But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. 8 Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day. 9 So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
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1 Corinthians 10:5
New Living Translation
5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
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Amos 4:11
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11 “I destroyed some of your cities,
as I destroyed[a] Sodom and Gomorrah.
Those of you who survived
were like charred sticks pulled from a fire.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- 4:11 Hebrew as when God destroyed.
Proverbs 14:32
New Living Translation
32 The wicked are crushed by disaster,
but the godly have a refuge when they die.
Psalm 107:43
New Living Translation
43 Those who are wise will take all this to heart;
they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.
Psalm 52:5
New Living Translation
5 But God will strike you down once and for all.
He will pull you from your home
and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
Job 5:3
New Living Translation
3 I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,
but then comes sudden disaster.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
New Living Translation
9 “What sorrow awaits you who build big houses
with money gained dishonestly!
You believe your wealth will buy security,
putting your family’s nest beyond the reach of danger.
10 But by the murders you committed,
you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
11 The very stones in the walls cry out against you,
and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.
12 “What sorrow awaits you who build cities
with money gained through murder and corruption!
Hosea 14:9
New Living Translation
9 Let those who are wise understand these things.
Let those with discernment listen carefully.
The paths of the Lord are true and right,
and righteous people live by walking in them.
But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.
Proverbs 13:6
New Living Translation
6 Godliness guards the path of the blameless,
but the evil are misled by sin.
Proverbs 11:3-5
New Living Translation
3 Honesty guides good people;
dishonesty destroys treacherous people.
4 Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,
but right living can save you from death.
5 The godly are directed by honesty;
the wicked fall beneath their load of sin.
Job 21:28-30
New Living Translation
28 You will tell me of rich and wicked people
whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
29 But ask those who have been around,
and they will tell you the truth.
30 Evil people are spared in times of calamity
and are allowed to escape disaster.
Job 18:14-21
New Living Translation
14 They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of terrors.
15 The homes of the wicked will burn down;
burning sulfur rains on their houses.
16 Their roots will dry up,
and their branches will wither.
17 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth;
no one will remember their names.
18 They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren,
nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
20 People in the west are appalled at their fate;
people in the east are horrified.
21 They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person,
the place of one who rejected God.’”
Job 8:15
New Living Translation
15 They cling to their home for security, but it won’t last.
They try to hold it tight, but it will not endure.
Genesis 19:29
New Living Translation
29 But God had listened to Abraham’s request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.
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Job 27:13-23
New Living Translation
13 “This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
14 They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.
15 Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.
16 “Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.
17 But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.
18 The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,[a]
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
19 The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
21 The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.
22 It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.
23 But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
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