Psalms 12:8 · KJV
“The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. {men: Heb. of the sons of the men}”
— Psalms 12:8
Psalms 12 — Context
The words of the LORD {are} pure words: {as} silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. {them from: Heb. him, etc: that is, every one of them, etc}
8The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. {men: Heb. of the sons of the men}
Cross References
Mark 14:63-65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
Psalms 55:10-11
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants {are} wicked.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim {is} oppressed {and} broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Isaiah 32:4-6
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. {rash: Heb. hasty} {plainly: or, elegantly}
Judges 9:18-57
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he {is} your brother;)
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. {For the...: or, For he doth much keep the, etc} {desolation: or, astonishment}
Esther 3:6-15
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that {were} throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, {even} the people of Mordecai.