Psalms 37:35 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Psalms 37:35 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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 8:13-19
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: …
Isaiah 14:14-19
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. …
Psalms 73:3-11
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 34-40)

The psalmist’s conclusion of this sermon (for that is the nature of this poem) is of the same purport with the whole, and inculcates the same things. I. The duty here pressed upon us is still the same (Ps. 37:34): Wait on the Lord and keep his way. Duty is ours, and we must mind it and make conscience of it, keep God’s way and never turn out of it nor loiter in it, keep close, keep going; but even…

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

(vv. 35)

35-36. of which a picture is given, under the figure of a flourishing tree (compare Margin), which soon withers.