Psalms 37:35

“Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, etc.] Lead, guide, direct me in the path, and use me to it; work in me both to will and to do; give both ability and a willing mind to walk therein; by granting fresh supplies of grace, and more spiritual strength; by drawing with the cords of love, and by putting in him the good spirit of grace, to cause to walk in the statutes of the Lord, and keep his judgments and do them, (<263627>Ezekiel 36:27); for therein do I delight; in the law of God, after the inward man; in the commandments of Christ, which are not grievous; in wisdom’s ways and paths, which are pleasantness and peace.”

“of which a picture is given, under the figure of a flourishing tree (compare Margin), which soon withers.”

“I have seen - I have had an opportunity, in my long life Psalms 37:25, of witnessing the accuracy of the statement just made, that a righteous man may live to see a confirmation of the truth that wickedness, however prosperous the wicked man may be, will lead to ultimate ruin - as I have had an opportunity of seeing Psalms 37:25-26 the effect of a course of righteousness on the ultimate prosperity and happiness of its possessor. The same experience, with the same result, is referred to in Job 5:3. In great power - The word used here - עריץ ‛ârı̂yts - means properly “terrible; inspiring terror.” It is applied to God in Jeremiah 20:11; and to powerful nations, Isaiah 25:3. It is also used in…”

“Bay - tree - Which is continually green and flourishing even in winter. Psalms 37:36”

“37:35-36 The wicked might appear to be flourishing like a tree (cp. 52:8; 92:12-13), but they eventually die and are forgotten (37:2).”

“I have: Psa 73:3-11; Est 5:11; Job 5:3, Job 21:7-17; Isa 14:14-19 a green bay tree: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil, Job 8:13-19; Eze 31:6-10, Eze 31:18; Dan 4:20-33 Psalms 37:36”

“עריץ (after the form צדּיק) is coupled with רשׁע, must as these two words alternate in Job 15:20 : a terror-inspiring, tyrannical evil-doer; cf. besides also Job 5:3. The participle in Psa 37:35 forms a clause by itself: et se diffundens, scil. erat. The lxx and Jerome translate as though it were כארז הלבנן, "like the cedars of Lebanon," instead of כאזרח רענן. But אזרח רענן is the expression for an oak, terebinth, or the like, that has brown from time immemorial in its native soil, and has in the course of centuries attained a gigantic size in the stem, and a wide-spreading overhanging head. ויּעבר does not mean: then he vanished away (Hupfeld and others); for עבר in this sense is not…”