Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Holman Bible
and wilt like tender green plants.
International Standard Version
Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.
A Conservative Version
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
American Standard Version
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Amplified
For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.
Bible in Basic English
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
Darby Translation
for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
Julia Smith Translation
For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away.
King James 2000
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.
Modern King James verseion
For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.
NET Bible
For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.
New Heart English Bible
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
The Emphasized Bible
For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.
Webster
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
World English Bible
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Youngs Literal Translation
For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
Themes
Anxiety » Why you should not be anxious
Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked
Wicked people » Compared with » Grass
Wicked people » Compared with » Green herbs
The wicked » Devices of » Fate of
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 37:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instruction In Wisdom
1 {A Psalm of David} Fret not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb. 3 Put thou thy trust in the LORD, and be doing good; dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 73:17-20
until I went into the Sanctuary of God. Then understood I the end of these men.
Psalm 90:5-6
As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.
Psalm 92:7
that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.
Job 14:2
He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.
Job 20:5-9
the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?
Psalm 37:35-36
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Psalm 129:5-7
All them that have an evil will to Zion shall be confounded, and made to turn back from it.
James 1:10-11
and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,