Psalm 37:32 {36:32}
Good News Translation
Wicked people watch good people and try to kill them;

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked watch for the righteous, and seek to kill them.

Contemporary English Version
The wicked try to trap and kill good people,

New American Bible
The wicked spies on the righteous and seeks to kill him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,

watcheth

Psalm 37:12 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . .

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Luke 6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 11:54 Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

Luke 19:47,48 And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him. . . .

Luke 20:20 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.

Acts 9:24 But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
31The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted. 32The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,33But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:18
And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

Psalm 10:8
He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

Psalm 17:11
They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.

Psalm 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

Psalm 109:16
because he remembered not to shew mercy,

Daniel 6:11
Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God.

Psalm 37:31
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