Psalm 37:6
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New International Version (©2011)
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He will bring forth your righteousness as a light, and your justice as the noonday sun.

NET Bible (©2006)
He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And he will bring forth your righteousness like a light and your judgments like the noon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He will make your righteousness shine like a light, your just cause like the noonday sun.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

American King James Version
And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

American Standard Version
And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, And thy justice as the noon-day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Darby Bible Translation
and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

English Revised Version
Add he shall make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

World English Bible
he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Young's Literal Translation
And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:1-6 When we look abroad we see the world full of evil-doers, that flourish and live in ease. So it was seen of old, therefore let us not marvel at the matter. We are tempted to fret at this, to think them the only happy people, and so we are prone to do like them: but this we are warned against. Outward prosperity is fading. When we look forward, with an eye of faith, we shall see no reason to envy the wicked. Their weeping and wailing will be everlasting. The life of religion is a believing trust in the Lord, and diligent care to serve him according to his will. It is not trusting God, but tempting him, if we do not make conscience of our duty to him. A man's life consists not in abundance, but, Thou shalt have food convenient for thee. This is more than we deserve, and it is enough for one that is going to heaven. To delight in God is as much a privilege as a duty. He has not promised to gratify the appetites of the body, and the humours of the fancy, but the desires of the renewed, sanctified soul. What is the desire of the heart of a good man? It is this, to know, and love, and serve God. Commit thy way unto the Lord; roll thy way upon the Lord, so the margin reads it. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, the burden of thy care. We must roll it off ourselves, not afflict and perplex ourselves with thoughts about future events, but refer them to God. By prayer spread thy case and all thy cares before the Lord, and trust in him. We must do our duty, and then leave the event with God. The promise is very sweet: He shall bring that to pass, whatever it is, which thou has committed to him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. If the prosperity of the wicked frets thee, because it seems to obscure thy righteousness, since while he appears to bask in the sunshine of God's favour, thy life is possibly overshadowed by clouds and darkness, be sure that, in the end, this seeming injustice will be remedied. God will not frown on thee always; one day he will turn on thee the light of his countenance, and make thy righteousness to shine forth like the sun in its noonday splendour.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,.... That is, the good man having committed his cause to him that judgeth righteously, he will, in his own time, clearly make it appear that it is a righteous one, both to himself and others, in whatsoever obscurity it may have lain;

and thy judgment as the noonday; the same as before, unless rather the righteousness of Christ, which is the believer's by imputation, and is a justifying one in the judgment of God, should be meant; see Micah 7:9; and the phrases may denote not barely the revelation of it in the Gospel, but the more clear manifestation of it to the believer himself, from faith to faith; or as it will be still more clearly revealed and declared at the day of judgment, when those who are clothed with it shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father, and be clear of all those charges and imputations which they have lain under in this life.

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Don't Fret Because of Evildoers
…5Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday. 7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass. …

Job 11:17 Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
Psalm 97:11 Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.
Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
Jeremiah 51:10 "'The LORD has vindicated us; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has done.'
Micah 7:9 Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.