Psalms 37:10

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Looke at them yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be there

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְע֣וֹד מְ֭עַט וְאֵ֣ין רָשָׁ֑ע וְהִתְבּוֹנַ֖נְתָּ עַל־מְקוֹמ֣וֹ וְאֵינֶֽנּוּ׃

Transliteration

And yet məʿaṭ and there is no rāšāʿ; and you will hitbônanəta upon his məqômô and he is not.

Grammar Details

• *wəʿôd*: conjunction + adverb - and yet/and still
• *məʿaṭ*: masculine singular adjective/noun - little/short time
• *wəʾên*: conjunction + particle of negation - and there is no
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular adjective/noun - wicked person
• *wəhitbônanəta*: conjunction + Hithpolel perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - and you will consider attentively
• *məqômô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his place
• *wəʾênenû*: conjunction + particle of negation + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and he is not

Word Meanings

• *məʿaṭ*: a little while/soon/shortly
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evil one/wrong-doer
• *hitbônanəta*: you will consider attentively/you will observe carefully/you will look diligently

Referenced Verses

• Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted for a litle, but shortly are gone, brought to pouertie, and taken out of the way, yea and vtterly pluckt of, as the eares of corne.
• Job 7:10 : 10 Nor turne againe into his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 Therfore the Lord wyll destroy thee for euer: he wyll take thee and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the lande of the liuing. Selah.
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree. 36 And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde.
• Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other.
• Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous wyll reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce: he wyll washe his foote steppes in the blood of the vngodly. 11 And euery man shall say, veryly there is a rewarde for the righteous: doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
• Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
• Ps 103:16 : 16 For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more seene: and the place therof knoweth it no more.
• Ps 107:42-43 : 42 The righteous will marke this and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped. 43 Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God.
• Isa 14:16-19 : 16 They that see thee shall narowly loke vpon thee, and thinke in them selues, saying: Is this the man that brought all landes in feare, and made the kyngdomes afrayde? 17 Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waste, and layde the cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go out? 18 The kynges of the nations lye euery one in his owne house with worship. 19 And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete.
• Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God sayde vnto hym: Thou foole, this nyght wyll they fetch awaye thy soule againe fro thee: Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided? 21 So is he that gathereth riches to him selfe, and is not ryche towardes God.
• Luke 16:27-28 : 27 Then he sayde: I pray thee therfore father, sende hym to my fathers house. 28 For I haue fyue brethren, that he may witnesse vnto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye haue neede of pacience, that after ye haue done the wyll of God, ye myght receaue the promise. 37 For yet a very litle whyle, and he that shall come, wyll come, and wyll not tary.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.
• Rev 6:10-11 : 10 And they cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Howe long taryest thou Lorde, holy and true, to iudge and to auenge our blood on the that dwell on ye earth? 11 And long whyte garmentes were geuen vnto euery one of them: and it was sayde vnto them, that they should reste yet for a litle season, vntyll the number of their felowes, and brethren, and of them that shoulde be kylled as they were, were fulfylled.
• Job 7:21 : 21 Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses, and take away myne iniquitie? Behold, nowe must I sleepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning, I shal not be.
• Job 14:10 : 10 But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him?
• Job 20:8-9 : 8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night. 9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.
• 1 Sam 25:38-39 : 38 And vpon a ten dayes after, the Lord smote Nabal, that he dyed. 39 And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he sayd: Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged ye cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, & hath kept his seruaunt from euill: For the Lord hath recompenced the wickednes of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent to commune with Abigail, to take her to his wyfe.
• 2 Kgs 9:25 : 25 Then said Iehu to Bidkar a captayne: Take him and cast him in the plat of the ground of Naboth the Iezrahelite: For I remember that when I & thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this heauy burthen vpon him:
• 2 Kgs 9:34-37 : 34 And when he was come in, he dyd eate and drinke, & sayd: Go and visite I pray you yonder cursed creature, and burie her: for she is a kinges daughter. 35 And so when they came to burie her, they founde no more of her then the skull, and the feete, and the palmes of her handes. 36 Wherfore they came againe, and tolde him: And he sayd, This is the worde of the Lorde whiche he spake by the hand of his seruaunt Elias the Thesbite, saying: In the fielde of Iezrahel shall dogges eate the fleshe of Iezabel. 37 And so the carkasse of Iezabel was euen as dounge vpon the earth in the fielde of Iezrahel, so that no man might say, This is Iezabel.
• Esth 7:10-8:1 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the galous that he had made for Mardocheus: Then was the kinges wrath pacified. 1 The same day did king Ahasuerus geue the house of Haman the Iewes enemie vnto queene Esther, and Mardocheus came before the king: for Esther tolde what he was vnto her.