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Related Verses

Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Psalm 37:2
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 37:9
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

Isaiah 28:15–18
Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”; therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’ And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.” Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Psalm 112:2
His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

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