“I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 37 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.