HAPPINESS

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

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happiness. Happiness, n. blessedness, content, good fortune

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Hap″pi‐ness, n. [[From Happy.]] 1. 1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak. 2. 2. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
3. 3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope. Syn. — Happiness, Felicity, Blessedness, Bliss. Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal appetites; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations; blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the purest social, benevolent, and religious affections; bliss denotes still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the joy anticipated in heaven. O happiness! our being's end and aim! Pope. Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease. Milton. His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little. Shak.