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Psalms Chapter 37 verse 35 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
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BBE Psalms 37:35

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
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DARBY Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
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KJV Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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WBT Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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WEB Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, Spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
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YLT Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 35. - I have seen the wicked in great power, and flourishing like a green bay tree; rather, as in the margin, like a green tree in his own (or, his native) soil. Growing, i.e., rankly and luxuriantly, like a leafy shrub, that has never suffered transplantation (comp. Psalm 1:3; Ezekiel 31:3).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) In great power.--Terrible, like a tyrant.Green bay tree.--The Hebrew word elsewhere implies a "native" as opposed to "a foreigner." So here an indigenous tree. "It may be questioned whether any particular tree is intended by the psalmist; but if so, it must have been an evergreen, and may possibly be the Sweet Bay (Laurus nobilis), which is a native of Palestine. We met with it near Hebron; on Mount Carmel in great plenty; on Tabor, and in various glades of Galilee and Gilead" (Tristram, Natural History of Bible, 338).The LXX. and Vulg., by slightly altering the text, have, "as cedars of Lebanon."