Psalms 37:36
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
BSB
ASV
But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
KJV
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Yet he passed away. Tree and man both gone, the son of man as surely as the child of the forest. What clean sweeps death makes! And, lo, he was not. To the surprise of all men the great man was gone, his estates sold, his business bankrupt, his house alienated, his name forgotten, and all in a few months. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Moved by curiosity, if we enquire for the ungodly, they have left no trace; like birds of ill omen none desire to remember them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 37:10Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
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They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
Through
Exodus 15:19For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
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The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
