Psalms 37:2 - Exposition

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass . So Zophar, in the Book of Job ( Job 20:5 ), "The triumphing of the wicked is short , and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment." And, no doubt, if we compare time with eternity, the longest triumph that the wicked ever enjoy is but for a brief space, is soon gone, endures "but for a moment." It has a continuance, however, which to men in this life seems long, often intolerably long; and hence the disturbance which men's minds suffer on account of it ( Job 21:7 , Job 21:13 ; Psalms 73:3-16 ). And wither as the green herb (comp. Psalms 90:5 , Psalms 90:6 ; Psalms 103:15 ; Isaiah 40:6 , Isaiah 40:7 ; James 1:10 , James 1:11 ; 1 Peter 1:24 ).