Psalms 37:32,33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The wicked watcheth the righteous To find out a fit season or occasion to destroy him. The Lord will not leave him in his hand That is, will not give him up to his power and rage; nor condemn him when he is judged Will not give his consent to the sentence of condemnation, which the wicked have pronounced against him, but will justify him, and vindicate his innocence, and deliver him. Some understand the words thus: Nor shall he (the wicked) condemn him when he is judged, observing, “that it seems more to the purpose to say, that God would not suffer the wicked man to condemn the righteous, or to find him guilty, (for that probably was the way in which he proposed to murder him,) than that he would not do it himself.” Mudge.

Psalms 37:32-33

32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.