Psalm 12:8
New International Version
who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race.

New Living Translation
even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.

English Standard Version
On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Berean Standard Bible
The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

King James Bible
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

New King James Version
The wicked prowl on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

New American Standard Bible
The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of mankind.

NASB 1995
The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

NASB 1977
The wicked strut about on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Legacy Standard Bible
The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Amplified Bible
The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on every side, As vileness is exalted and baseness is prized among the sons of men.

Christian Standard Bible
The wicked prowl all around, and what is worthless is exalted by the human race.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked wander everywhere, and what is worthless is exalted by the human race.

American Standard Version
The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The wicked go around and walk according to the contemptible pride of the sons of Edom.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The ungodly walk around: according to thy greatness thou has greatly exalted the sons of men.

Contemporary English Version
But all who are wicked will keep on strutting, while everyone praises their shameless deeds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou best multiplied the children of men.

English Revised Version
The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Wicked people parade around when immorality increases among Adam's descendants.

International Standard Version
The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Literal Standard Version
The wicked walk around continually, | According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

Majority Standard Bible
The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

New American Bible
On every side the wicked roam; the shameless are extolled by the children of men.

NET Bible
for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

New Revised Standard Version
On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.

New Heart English Bible
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the descendants of Adam.

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

World English Bible
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Young's Literal Translation
Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

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Context
The Godly are No More
7You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation. 8The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

Cross References
Psalm 55:10
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

Psalm 55:11
Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

Isaiah 32:5
No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.


Treasury of Scripture

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

wicked

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

when

Judges 9:18
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

1 Samuel 18:17,18
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him…

Esther 3:6
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

men.

Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

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1. David, destitute of human comfort, craves help of God
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(8) The wicked.--Gesenius translates this verse, "The wicked walk on every side like the rising of a tempest upon the sons of men." There seems no reason to question his rendering of the word zull-th (Authorised Version, "vilest"), which is peculiar to this passage; but by comparison with Psalm 39:6; Psalm 58:7, we may render the first clause, the wicked vanish on every side; and a slight change gives for the second clause, at the rising of a tempest on the sons of men.

Verse 8. - The wicked walk on every side. This can scarcely have been intended as an independent clause, though grammatically it stands alone. It is best to supply "while" or "though" before "the wicked," as Dr. Kay does, and to translate, Though (or, while) wicked men march to and fro on all sides; i.e. while they have their way, and control all other men's incomings and out-goings, being free themselves. When the vilest men are exalted; rather, and though villainy (זֻלּות) exalteth itself among the sons of men.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The wicked
רְשָׁעִ֥ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

wander
יִתְהַלָּכ֑וּן (yiṯ·hal·lā·ḵūn)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

freely,
סָבִ֗יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

and vileness
זֻ֝לּ֗וּת (zul·lūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2149: A shaking, a tempest

is exalted
כְּרֻ֥ם (kə·rum)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

among
לִבְנֵ֥י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

men.
אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being


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