Psalm 37:35-36

35 I have seen a wicked, violent man well-rooted^[a] like a flourishing native tree. ^[b]

36 Then I passed by and^[c] noticed he was gone; I searched for him, but he could not be found.

Psalm 37:35-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 37

\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This psalm, it is very probable, was written at the same time, and upon the same occasion, with the former; and describes the different states of good and bad men; and is full of exhortations, instructions, and advice to the people of God; intermixed with various encouraging promises. A late learned writer {h} thinks it was written for Mephibosheth's consolation under Ziba's calumny. {h} Delaney's Life of King David, vol. 2. p. 219.

Footnotes

• [a] Hb obscure
• [b] LXX reads man, lifting himself up like the cedars of Lebanon
• [c] DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Jer; MT reads Then he passed away, and I