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Psa 37:35 — I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I have		Psa 73:3-11; Est 5:11; Job 5:3; Job 21:7-17; Isa 14:14-19
a green bay tree		or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil. Job 8:13-19; Eze 31:6-10,18; Dan 4:20-33

Correlating Passages

I have

	Psa 73:3	For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
	Psa 73:4	For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.
	Psa 73:5	They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men.
	Psa 73:6	Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
	Psa 73:7	Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
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	Est 5:11	And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
	Job 5:3	I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
	Job 21:7	Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
	Job 21:8	Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
	Job 21:9	Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
	Job 21:10	Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
	Job 21:11	They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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	Isa 14:14	I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
	Isa 14:15	Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
	Isa 14:16	They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
	Isa 14:17	[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
	Isa 14:18	All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
	Isa 14:19	But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

a green bay tree

	Job 8:13	So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
	Job 8:14	Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
	Job 8:15	He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
	Job 8:16	He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
	Job 8:17	His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
	Job 8:18	If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
	Job 8:19	Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
	Eze 31:6	All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
	Eze 31:7	Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
	Eze 31:8	The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
	Eze 31:9	I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him.
	Eze 31:10	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
	Eze 31:18	To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
	Dan 4:20	The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
	Dan 4:21	Whose leaves [were] fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it [was] meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
	Dan 4:22	It [is] thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
	Dan 4:23	And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
	Dan 4:24	This [is] the interpretation, O king, and this [is] the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 37:35," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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