Psalms 37:35 · KJV
“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}”
— Psalms 37:35
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}.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he {was} not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psalms 37 — Context
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34Wait 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}.
35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}
36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he {was} not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37Mark the perfect {man}, and behold the upright: for the end of {that} man {is} peace.
Cross References
Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 21:7-17
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Psalms 73:3-11
For I was envious at the foolish, {when} I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Isaiah 14:14-19
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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:
Ezekiel 31:18
To 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.
Ezekiel 31:6-10
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.