| Geneva Study Bible I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Wesley's Notes 37:35 Bay - tree - Which is continually green and flourishing even in winter. King James Translators' Notes a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 35, 36. of which a picture is given, under the figure of a flourishing tree (compare Margin), which soon withers. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 37:34-40 Duty is ours, and we must mind it; but events are God's, we must refer the disposal of them to him. What a striking picture is in ver. 35,36, of many a prosperous enemy of God! But God remarkably blights the projects of the prosperous wicked, especially persecutors. None are perfect in themselves, but believers are so in Christ Jesus. If all the saint's days continue dark and cloudy, his dying day may prove comfortable, and his sun set bright; or, if it should set under a cloud, yet his future state will be everlasting peace. The salvation of the righteous will be the Lord's doing. He will help them to do their duties, to bear their burdens; help them to bear their troubles well, and get good by them, and, in due time, will deliver them out of their troubles. Let sinners then depart from evil, and do good; repent of and forsake sin, and trust in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ. Let them take his yoke upon them, and learn of him, that they may dwell for evermore in heaven. Let us mark the closing scenes of different characters, and always depend on God's mercy. | 
