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