Psalms 37:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

📖 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 little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’
• Job 7:10 : 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
• Ps 49:10 : 10 Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.
• Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 Then observers will say,“Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”
• Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
• Ps 103:16 : 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
• Ps 107:42-43 : 42 When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner shuts his mouth. 43 Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the LORD’s acts of loyal love!
• Isa 14:16-19 : 16 Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble? 17 Is this the one who made the world like a wilderness, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’ 18 As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb. 19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.
• Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
• Luke 16:27-28 : 27 So the rich man said,‘Then I beg you, father– send Lazarus to my father’s house 28 (for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised. 37 For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 Service, Suffering, and Judgment For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.
• Rev 6:10-11 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Each of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached of both their fellow servants and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been.
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
• Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
• Job 20:8-9 : 8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
• 1 Sam 25:38-39 : 38 After about ten days the LORD struck Nabal down and he died. 39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said,“Praised be the LORD who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! The LORD has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
• 2 Kgs 9:25 : 25 Jehu ordered his officer Bidkar,“Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the LORD pronounced this oracle against him,
• 2 Kgs 9:34-37 : 34 He went inside and had a meal. Then he said,“Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.” 35 But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands. 36 So they went back and told him. Then he said,“It is the fulfillment of the LORD’s message that he had spoken through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite,‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. 37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”
• Esth 7:10-8:1 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated. 1 The King Acts to Protect the Jews On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her.