Psalms 37:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalms 37:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. …
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Psalms 90:5-6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. …
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The instructions here given are very plain; much need not be said for the exposition of them, but there is a great deal to be done for the reducing of them to practice, and there they will look best. I. We are here cautioned against discontent at the prosperity and success of evil-doers (Ps. 37:1, 2): Fret not thyself, neither be thou envious. We may suppose that David speaks this to himself first…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Psa 37:1-40. A composed and uniform trust in God and a constant course of integrity are urged in view of the blessedness of the truly pious, contrasted in various aspects with the final ruin of the wicked. Thus the wisdom and justice of God’s providence are vindicated, and its seeming inequalities, which excite the cavils of the wicked and the distrust of the pious, are explained. David’s personal…