HAPPINESS

OF THE WICKED

Is limited to this life

Ps 17:14; Lu 16:25

Is short

Job 20:5

Is uncertain

Lu 12:20

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; 37:3,4,7

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

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 22:12

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

OF THE RIGHTEOUS

De 33:29; Job 5:17-27; Ps 36:8; 40:8; 63:5; 128:1,2; 133:1; 144:15; 146:5; Pr 3:13-18; 14:21; 16:20; 28:14; 29:18; Ec 2:24-26; 3:12,13,22; Isa 12:2,3; Mt 5:3-12; Ro 5:2; 2Co 12:10; Php 4:7; 1Pe 3:14; 4:12,13

See JOY

See PEACE

See PRAISE