Psalms Chapter 37 verse 2 Holy Bible
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
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For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
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for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither like the green herb.
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For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
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Psalms 37 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For they shall soon be cut down like the grass. So Zophar, in the Book of Job (Job 20:5), "The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment." And, no doubt, if we compare time with eternity, the longest triumph that the wicked ever enjoy is but for a brief space, is soon gone, endures "but for a moment." It has a continuance, however, which to men in this life seems long, often intolerably long; and hence the disturbance which men's minds suffer on account of it (Job 21:7, 13; Psalm 73:3-16). And wither as the green herb (comp. Psalm 90:5, 6; Psalm 103:15; Isaiah 40:6, 7; James 1:10, 11; 1 Peter 1:24).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For they . . .--This inevitable metaphor for the brevity of human life, made still more forcible in an Eastern clime where vegetation is so rapid both in growth and decay, and generally in the Bible applied, without distinction of good or bad, with a mournful sigh over human weakness, becomes here a source of comfort to the godly man.Green herb.--Literally, greenness of herbage.
