KJV King James Version
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
WEB World English Bible
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
ASV American Standard Version
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
Surrounding context — Psalm 37
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
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Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.Job 21:7-17Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?Psalm 73:3-11For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Ezekiel 31:6-10All 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.Ezekiel 31:18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.Isaiah 14:14-19I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.Esther 5:11And 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 8:13-19So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:Daniel 4:20-33The 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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