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Selected Verse: Psalms 37:32 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 37:32 |
King James |
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The devices of the wicked against the good fail because God acquits them. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The wicked watcheth the righteous ... - Observes closely; looks out for him; has his eye on him, seeking an opportunity to slay him. See the notes at Psa 10:8-9. The sense is, that the wicked are the enemies of the righteous, and seek to do them wrong. It is a characteristic of the wicked that they seek to destroy the righteous. This was manifested in the case of the prophets; in the case of the apostles; in the case of the Saviour; and it has been so manifest in the deaths of the martyrs, and all the persecutions which the Church has suffered, as to justify the general declaration that it is one of the characteristics of a wicked world that it desires to do this. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The Lord as ἀνακρίνων is, as in Co1 4:3., put in contrast with the ἀνακρίνειν of men, or of human ἡμέρᾳ. If men sit in judgment upon the righteous, yet God, the supreme Judge, does not condemn him, but acquits him (cf. on the contrary Psa 109:7). Si condemnamur a mundo, exclaimed Tertullian to his companions in persecution, absolvimur a Deo. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him - Similar to what is said Psa 37:8 : "The wicked plotteth against the righteous." But it is added, Psa 37:33 : "The Lord will not leave him in his hands;" he will confound his devices, and save his own servants. |
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.