Psalm 37:12 {36:12}
Good News Translation
The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked plot against the righteous, and gnash their teeth at them;

Contemporary English Version
Merciless people make plots against good people and snarl like animals,

New American Bible
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 37:32 The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,

1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day.

1 Samuel 23:7-9 And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come into a city that hath gates and bars. . . .

2 Samuel 15:10-12 And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As soon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom reigneth in Hebron. . . .

Esther 3:6 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

Matthew 26:4,16 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death. . . .

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Daniel 8:12,24 And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper. . . .

Micah 2:1 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

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Psalm 35:16 They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
11But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace. 12The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.13But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.…
Cross References
Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Genesis 37:18
And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

Psalm 31:13
For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

Psalm 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Psalm 35:16
They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Lamentations 2:16
Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

Psalm 37:11
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