Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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:

For I was envious at the foolish, {when} I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}

Let their habitation be desolate; {and} let none dwell in their tents. {their habitation: Heb. their palace} {let none...: Heb. let there not be a dweller}

Cursed {be} the man that maketh {any} graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth {it} in {a} secret {place}. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. {bishoprick: or, office, or, charge}

He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}

For {such as be} blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and {they that be} cursed of him shall be cut off.

The righteous {man} wisely considereth the house of the wicked: {but God} overthroweth the wicked for {their} wickedness.

That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}

The wicked are overthrown, and {are} not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.

He {is} green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me}

And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. {carried...: Heb. carried captive} {Jehoahaz: also called, Ahaziah, or, Azariah}

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.