Psalm 37:10 {36:10}
Good News Translation
Soon the wicked will disappear; you may look for them, but you won't find them;

New Revised Standard Version
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.

Contemporary English Version
Sinners will soon disappear, never to be found,

New American Bible
Wait a little, and the wicked will be no more; look for them and they will not be there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

yet

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Job 24:24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

Hebrews 10:36,37 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

Revelation 6:10,11 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? . . .

wicked

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Psalm 49:10 He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

Psalm 103:16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

Job 7:10,21 Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more . . .

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Job 20:8,9 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night: . . .

Luke 12:20,21 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? . . .

Luke 16:27,28 And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, . . .

thou

Psalm 52:5-7 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living. . . .

Psalm 58:10,11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. . . .

Psalm 107:42,43 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. . . .

1 Samuel 25:38,39 And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. . . .

2 Kings 9:25,34-37 And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him into the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and thou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man's father, that the Lord laid this burden upon him, saying: . . .

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Esther 8:1 On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews' enemy, to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had confessed to him that he was her uncle.

Isaiah 14:16-19 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms, . . .

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
9For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land. 10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.11But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace.…
Cross References
Job 7:10
Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more

Job 24:24
They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

Psalm 37:36
And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

Psalm 104:35
Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

Ezekiel 27:36
The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.

Daniel 2:35
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Psalm 37:9
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