Psalm 37:35
New International Version
I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,

New Living Translation
I have seen wicked and ruthless people flourishing like a tree in its native soil.

English Standard Version
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

Berean Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

King James Bible
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

New King James Version
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.

New American Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, violent person Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

NASB 1995
I have seen a wicked, violent man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

NASB 1977
I have seen a violent, wicked man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Amplified Bible
I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power] Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

Christian Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, violent person well-rooted, like a flourishing native tree.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, violent man well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.

American Standard Version
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I have seen the wicked who are boasting and are lifted up like trees of the forest.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen brutal people abuse others and grow strong like trees in rich soil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

English Revised Version
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I have seen a wicked person [acting like] a tyrant, spreading himself out like a large cedar tree.

Good News Translation
I once knew someone wicked who was a tyrant; he towered over everyone like a cedar of Lebanon;

International Standard Version
I once observed a wicked and oppressive person, flourishing like a green tree in native soil.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a leafy tree in its native soil.

Literal Standard Version
I have seen the wicked terrible, | And spreading as a green native plant,

Majority Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

New American Bible
I have seen a ruthless scoundrel, spreading out like a green cedar.

NET Bible
I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

New Revised Standard Version
I have seen the wicked oppressing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

New Heart English Bible
I have seen the wicked wielding great power, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

World English Bible
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Young's Literal Translation
I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
34Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. 35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, 36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.…

Cross References
Job 5:3
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Job 8:16
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

Job 20:5
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Psalm 37:10
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

Isaiah 41:12
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.

Jeremiah 12:2
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.


Treasury of Scripture

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

I have

Psalm 73:3-11
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…

Esther 5:11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

a green bay-tree.

Job 8:13-19
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: …

Ezekiel 31:6-10,18
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations…

Daniel 4:20
The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

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Psalm 37
1. David persuades to patience and confidence in God,
12. by the different estate of the godly and the wicked














(35) In great power.--Terrible, like a tyrant.

Green bay tree.--The Hebrew word elsewhere implies a "native" as opposed to "a foreigner." So here an indigenous tree. "It may be questioned whether any particular tree is intended by the psalmist; but if so, it must have been an evergreen, and may possibly be the Sweet Bay (Laurus nobilis), which is a native of Palestine. We met with it near Hebron; on Mount Carmel in great plenty; on Tabor, and in various glades of Galilee and Gilead" (Tristram, Natural History of Bible, 338).

The LXX. and Vulg., by slightly altering the text, have, "as cedars of Lebanon."

Verse 35. - I have seen the wicked in great power, and flourishing like a green bay tree; rather, as in the margin, like a green tree in his own (or, his native) soil. Growing, i.e., rankly and luxuriantly, like a leafy shrub, that has never suffered transplantation (comp. Psalm 1:3; Ezekiel 31:3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I have seen
רָ֭אִיתִי (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

a wicked,
רָשָׁ֣ע (rā·šā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

ruthless man
עָרִ֑יץ (‘ā·rîṣ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6184: Awe-inspiring, terror-striking

flourishing
רַעֲנָֽן׃ (ra·‘ă·nān)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7488: Verdant, new, prosperous

like a well-rooted
וּ֝מִתְעָרֶ֗ה (ū·miṯ·‘ā·reh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6168: To be, bare, to empty, pour out, demolish

native tree,
כְּאֶזְרָ֥ח (kə·’ez·rāḥ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 249: A spontaneous growth, native


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