Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.

New American Standard Bible

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

King James Version

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Holman Bible

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

International Standard Version

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

A Conservative Version

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

American Standard Version

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

Amplified


That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

Darby Translation

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:

King James 2000

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:

Modern King James verseion

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they shall be destroyed forever;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

NET Bible

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

New Heart English Bible

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

The Emphasized Bible

When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Webster

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

World English Bible

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Youngs Literal Translation

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

References

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Context Readings

God's Love And Faithfulness

6 [The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this. 7 When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever. 8 But you [are] on high forever, O Yahweh.

Cross References

Psalm 37:38

But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. [The] future of [the] wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

Job 12:6

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

1 Samuel 25:36-38

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, {he was holding a feast} in his house like the feast of the king. {Nabal was enjoying himself}, and he [was] very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, {nothing at all}, until the light of morning.

Job 21:7-12

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

Psalm 37:1-2

Do not fret because of evildoers; do not be envious of doers of wickedness.

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

Psalm 73:12

See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.

Psalm 90:5-6

You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.

Psalm 94:4

{They gush words} unrestrained. All [the] evildoers boast.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.

Proverbs 1:32

for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Isaiah 37:27

And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.

Isaiah 40:6-7

A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

Malachi 3:15

And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"

Malachi 4:1

"For look! The day [is] about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every {evildoer} will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

Luke 16:19-25

"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.

James 1:10-11

but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.

1 Peter 1:24

For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,

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