Psalms 37:2

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Psalms 37:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

2 For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 37:35

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Psalms 37:36

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Psalms 73:17

until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

Psalms 73:18

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalms 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Psalms 73:20

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Psalms 90:5

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Psalms 90:6

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalms 92:7

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

Psalms 129:5

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

Psalms 129:6

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Psalms 129:7

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 20:6

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 20:9

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

James 1:10

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,