Parallel Verses
Webster
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Holman Bible
and what is worthless is exalted by the human race.
International Standard Version
The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
A Conservative Version
The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
American Standard Version
The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
Amplified
The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on every side,
As vileness is exalted and baseness is prized among the sons of men.
Bible in Basic English
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.
Darby Translation
The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.
Julia Smith Translation
The unjust shall walk round about as the rising of a tempest to the sons of man.
King James 2000
The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] wicked prowl about when vileness [is] exalted among [the] children of humankind.
Modern King James verseion
The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is praised by the sons of men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.
NET Bible
for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.
New Heart English Bible
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
The Emphasized Bible
On every side, the lawless, march about, - when worthlessness is exalted by the sons of men.
World English Bible
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Youngs Literal Translation
Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 12:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oppression By The Wicked
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
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Cross References
Judges 9:18-57
And ye have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother:)
1 Samuel 18:17-18
And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee for a wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
Esther 3:6-15
And he scorned to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shown 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.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Psalm 55:10-11
Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants are wicked.
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.
Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
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.
Mark 14:63-65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?