Topic
Happiness of the Wicked, The
43 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 11:33Torrey Often interrupted by judgments
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
- Esther 5:9–11Torrey Exemplified — Haman
¶ Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came…
- Esther 5:13Torrey Marred by jealousy
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Job 15:21Torrey Often interrupted by judgments
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 20:5Torrey Is short
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 21:7Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their power
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Job 21:12Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Vain pleasure
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Job 21:13Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their wealth
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Psalms 17:14Torrey Is limited to this life
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Psalms 37:1Torrey Envy not
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 37:35Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their power
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Psalms 37:36Torrey Illustrated
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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- Psalms 52:7 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their wealth
- Psalms 73:3 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 73:4 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 73:7 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 73:16 Torrey Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Psalms 73:17–20 Torrey Saints often permitted to see the end of
- Psalms 73:18–20 Torrey Often interrupted by judgments
- Proverbs 14:13 Torrey Leads to sorrow
- Ecclesiastes 2:1 Torrey Is vain
- Ecclesiastes 7:6 Torrey Is vain
- Isaiah 5:11 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Drunkenness
- Isaiah 5:12 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Vain pleasure
- Isaiah 22:13 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Gluttony
- Isaiah 56:12 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Drunkenness
- Jeremiah 12:1 Torrey Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Jeremiah 25:10–11 Torrey Often interrupted by judgments
- Daniel 5:1 Torrey Exemplified — Belshazzar
- Amos 6:1 Torrey Woe against
- Habakkuk 1:13 Torrey Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Habakkuk 1:15 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Successful oppression
- Habakkuk 1:16 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Gluttony
- Luke 6:25 Torrey Woe against
- Luke 12:16–20 Torrey Illustrated
- Luke 12:20 Torrey Is uncertain
- Luke 16:19–25 Torrey Illustrated
- Luke 16:25 Torrey Is limited to this life
- Acts 12:21–23 Torrey Exemplified — Herod
- Acts 12:22 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Popular applause
- James 4:13 Torrey Is uncertain
- James 4:14 Torrey Is uncertain
- James 5:6 Torrey IS DERIVED FROM — Successful oppression
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 48 references, grouped by sub-topic
- 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
- 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
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.