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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

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• JOY
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• PRAISE