Psalm 37:10
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New International Version (©2011)
A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Soon the wicked will disappear. Though you look for them, they will be gone.

English Standard Version (©2001)
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more; And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A little while, and the wicked person will be no more; though you look for him, he will not be there.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there.

NET Bible (©2006)
Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
In a little time you seek the wicked and he is not, and you gaze into his place and he is not found.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In a little while a wicked person will vanish. Then you can carefully examine where he was, but there will be no trace of him.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

American King James Version
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

American Standard Version
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be : and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

Darby Bible Translation
For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

English Revised Version
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

Webster's Bible Translation
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

World English Bible
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

Young's Literal Translation
And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be (compare the comment on ver. 2). Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be; or, he shall not be. He shall have been swept away; his "place shall know him no more" (Psalm 103:16).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be,.... Not that they shall be annihilated or reduced to nothing, because nonentities have no place nor being any where; when they die they shall lift up their eyes in hell; their bodies will rise again at the last day; they shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and go into everlasting punishment; but they shall be no more in the world, and in the same flourishing and prosperous circumstances they were: and this their destruction will be in a short time, very quickly;

yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be; his dwelling place, called after his own name, to perpetuate the memory of him; see Job 7:10; an instance of this the psalmist gives of his own knowledge, Psalm 37:35.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10, 11. shall not be—literally, "is not"—is not to be found.

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Don't Fret Because of Evildoers
…9For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. …

Job 7:10 He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
Job 24:24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
Psalm 37:36 but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.
Psalm 104:35 But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD.
Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the nations scoff at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'"
Daniel 2:35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.