Psalms 37:12

10 Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

11 But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

13 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

14 The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
KJV
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
WEB
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
ASV
The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
DARBY
The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.
BLB
The wicked man is plotting against the righteous one and is gnashing his teeth at him.
ÅB
Den ugudelige tenker ut ondt mot den rettferdige
og skjærer tenner imot ham.
OTB
De ugudelige legger planer mot de rettferdige,
Og skjærer tenner mot dem.
B1930
Den ugudelige optenker ondt imot den rettferdige og skjærer tenner imot ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 35:16

    Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

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  • Micah 2:1

    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

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  • Daniel 8:12

    And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.

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  • Psalms 31:13

    For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

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  • Matthew 26:16

    So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

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  • 1 Samuel 18:21

    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

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  • Matthew 26:4

    and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

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  • 1 Samuel 23:7–9

    When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

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