Psalm 91:8
 Psalm 91:8 
New International Version (©2011)
You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Just open your eyes, and see how the wicked are punished.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You will only look on with your eyes And see the recompense of the wicked.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back.

NET Bible (©2006)
Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes--you will see the wicked paid back.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But with your eyes alone you shall see the reward of the wicked.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You only have to look with your eyes to see the punishment of wicked people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

American King James Version
Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

American Standard Version
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

Darby Bible Translation
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the wicked.

English Revised Version
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the wicked.

Webster's Bible Translation
Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

World English Bible
You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

Young's Literal Translation
But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

91:1-8 He that by faith chooses God for his protector, shall find all in him that he needs or can desire. And those who have found the comfort of making the Lord their refuge, cannot but desire that others may do so. The spiritual life is protected by Divine grace from the temptations of Satan, which are as the snares of the fowler, and from the contagion of sin, which is a noisome pestilence. Great security is promised to believers in the midst of danger. Wisdom shall keep them from being afraid without cause, and faith shall keep them from being unduly afraid. Whatever is done, our heavenly Father's will is done; and we have no reason to fear. God's people shall see, not only God's promises fulfilled, but his threatenings. Then let sinners come unto the Lord upon his mercy-seat, through the Redeemer's name; and encourage others to trust in him also.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. - Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward (or, "the recompense") of the wicked; i.e. without suffering anything thyself, thou shalt look on, and see the punishment of the ungodly. So Israel in the land of Goshen "looked on," and saw the calamities of the Egyptians.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Only with thine eyes shall thou behold,.... The flying arrow, the walking pestilence, and wasting destruction, and the great devastations made by it:

and see the reward of the wicked; the vengeance of God upon them, and this as a just punishment for their sins; not looking upon it with delight and pleasure, rejoicing in the misery of their fellow creatures, any otherwise than as the glory of divine justice is displayed in it; see Psalm 52:6, the pestilence is always threatened, and it always comes, as a Judgment upon a wicked generation of men; and so it is ever to be considered, and is considered by good men, Leviticus 26:5.


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My Refuge and My Fortress
7A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked. 9Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation; …

Psalm 37:34 Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.
Psalm 58:10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalm 92:11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked thrive, so does sin, but the righteous will see their downfall.
Jeremiah 39:16 "Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, 'This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city--words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.