I have seen the wicked in great power Hebrew, עריצ, gnaritz, violent, or formidable: not only himself out of danger, as it seemed, but terrible to others; and spreading himself And therefore firmly and deeply rooted; like a green bay-tree Which is continually green and flourishing, yea, even in the winter season. Hebrew, כאזרח, cheezrach, sicut arbor indigena virens, like a green native plant, or a green tree in its native soil, where trees flourish much better than when they are transplanted into another soil. Houbigant, after the LXX., and many of the ancient versions, renders it, Like a flourishing cedar. Yet he passed away Houbigant, I passed by; and lo, he was not He was gone, like a tree blasted and blown down, or cut off and rooted out, and carried away in a moment. I sought him, but he could not be found There was no monument nor remainder of him left.

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