Psalm 37:12
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New International Version (©1984)
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The wicked person plots against a righteous one and grits his teeth at him.

King James Bible
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

American King James Version
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.

American Standard Version
The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Bible in Basic English
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sinner shall watch the just man : and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

Darby Bible Translation
The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

English Revised Version
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

World English Bible
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Young's Literal Translation
The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

Geneva Study Bible

{i} The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

(i) The godly are assured that the power and craft of the wicked will not prevail against them, but fall on their own necks and therefore should patiently abide God's time, and in the meanwhile bewail their sins, and offer up their tears as a sacrifice of their obedience.

King James Translators' Notes

plotteth: or, practiseth

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. gnasheth . teeth-in beastly rage.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:7-20 Let us be satisfied that God will make all to work for good to us. Let us not discompose ourselves at what we see in this world. A fretful, discontented spirit is open to many temptations. For, in all respects, the little which is allotted to the righteous, is more comfortable and more profitable than the ill-gotten and abused riches of ungodly men. It comes from a hand of special love. God provides plentifully and well, not only for his working servants, but for his waiting servants. They have that which is better than wealth, peace of mind, peace with God, and then peace in God; that peace which the world cannot give, and which the world cannot have. God knows the believer's days. Not one day's work shall go unrewarded. Their time on earth is reckoned by days, which will soon be numbered; but heavenly happiness shall be for ever. This will be a real support to believers in evil times. Those that rest on the Rock of ages, have no reason to envy the wicked the support of their broken reeds.


Psalm 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, Terror is on every side; While they took counsel together against me, They schemed to take away my life.
Psalm 31:20 You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man; You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
Psalm 35:16 Like godless jesters at a feast, They gnashed at me with their teeth. (NASB ©1995)

Designs Devising Evil Gnash Gnashes Gnasheth Gnashing Lifting Plot Plots Righteous Sinner Teeth Upright Voice Wicked Wrath


The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Ps 37:32 1Sa 18:21 23:7-9 2Sa 15:10-12 Es 3:6 Mt 26:4,16

plotteth. or, practiseth Da 8:12,24 Mic 2:1

gnasheth Ps 35:16

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