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Revised Standard Version

Psalms 5:5

The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Character;   Fool;   Hatred;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Hate;   Iniquity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Character of the Wicked;   Fools;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hate;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Golden Rule;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hatred;   Justice of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nehiloth;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;   Iniquity;   Music;   Nehiloth;   Psalms, Book of;   Text of the Old Testament;   Worker;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Jeremiah B. Abba;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The boastful cannot stand in your sight;you hate all evildoers.
Hebrew Names Version
The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
King James Version
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
English Standard Version
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
New Century Version
Those people who make fun of you cannot stand before you. You hate all those who do evil.
New English Translation
Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who behave wickedly.
Amplified Bible
The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight; You hate all who do evil.
New American Standard Bible
The boastful will not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do injustice.
World English Bible
The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The foolish shal not stand in thy sight: for thou hatest all them that worke iniquitie.
Legacy Standard Bible
The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes;You hate all workers of iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Contemporary English Version
No one who boasts can stand in your presence, Lord , and you hate evil people.
Complete Jewish Bible
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; evil cannot remain with you.
Darby Translation
Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fools cannot come near you. You hate those who do evil.
George Lamsa Translation
The proud shall not stand in thy sight; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Good News Translation
You cannot stand the sight of the proud; you hate all wicked people.
Lexham English Bible
The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers.
Literal Translation
The boasters shall not set themselves before Your eyes. You hate all workers of iniquity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Soch as be cruell maye not stonde in thy sight, thou art an enemie vnto all wicked doers. Thou destroyest the lyers: the LORDE abhorreth the bloude thurstie and disceatfull.
American Standard Version
The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee.
King James Version (1611)
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest al workers of iniquity
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Suche as be foolishe, can not stande in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquitie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Neither shall the transgressors continue in thy sight: thou hatest, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.
English Revised Version
The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nethir an yuel willid man schal dwelle bisidis thee; nethir vniust men schulen dwelle bifor thin iyen.
Update Bible Version
The arrogant shall not stand in your sight: You hate all workers of iniquity.
Webster's Bible Translation
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
New King James Version
The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.
New Living Translation
Therefore, the proud may not stand in your presence, for you hate all who do evil.
New Life Bible
The proud cannot stand before You. You hate all who do wrong.
New Revised Standard
The boastful will not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Boasters, shall not station themselves, before thine eyes, - Thou hatest all workers of iniquity:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(5-6) Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.
Young's Literal Translation
The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity.

Contextual Overview

1 To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD; give heed to my groaning. 2 Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray. 3 O LORD, in the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch. 4 For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee. 5 The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers. 6 Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 5:7
Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
Genesis 5:12
When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Ma-hal'alel.
Genesis 5:14
Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
Genesis 5:21
When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methu'selah.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methu'selah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight,.... By the "foolish" are meant not such who are so in a natural, but in a moral sense, wicked and ungodly men. The Septuagint render the word, "transgressors of the law"; and the Vulgate Latin version, "the unrighteous"; and the Arabic version, "they that contradict thy precepts". The word h used comes from a root which signifies to "praise"; and may design such as are praisers of themselves, proud boasters; who are elated with their own excellencies, with their wisdom, strength, honours, riches, and righteousness, and treat all others with contempt; for though they are unrighteous, yet they trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others, which betrays their folly; hence the Syriac version renders it, "the proud"; and the Chaldee paraphrase, "mockers". And their not standing in the sight of God denotes his abhorrence and detestation of them; as when one man abhors another he cannot endure to look upon him, or bear to have him in his presence: and it shows that such shall receive no favour from him; for though, like proud Haman, they may think themselves his favourites, and they are the persons the king will delight to honour; yet to their great mortification they will find, that a poor Mordecai, a mean despicable believer, will be preferred unto them. Nor shall they stand in acceptance and confidence before him at the day of judgment: they will not be able to stand themselves, but will call to the rocks and mountains to cover them; and they will not be suffered lost and, but will be driven from the presence of the Lord into everlasting burnings,

thou hatest all workers of iniquity; not all that have sin in them or do sin, for there are none without it; but such who give themselves up to work wickedness, who make it the business of their lives, and are slaves unto it, living in a continued series and course of impiety; and this character does not only belong to openly profane sinners, but to some professors of religion; see Matthew 7:22; and these are the objects of God's hatred. Which does not so much intend any past act of his, the preterition or passing them by, when he chose others in his eternal purposes; in which sense the word is used in Romans 9:13, as his continued aversion to them, denying them his grace and favour, and rejecting them from all nearness to him and communion with him; and may include the everlasting punishment of them, by which his displicine and hatred will be made manifest: and he is impartial in it, without any respect to persons, high or low, rich or poor; indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, will come upon every soul of man that does evil. God's love to his own people was antecedent to sin, and was placed upon them in Christ, in whom their persons are always well pleasing to him; and though they sinned in Adam, and became actual transgressors of his law, yet such was his love to their persons, that he saves them from their sins by the blood and righteousness of his son.

h הוללים "jactitantes", Gejerus; "insane gloriosi", Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The foolish - Referring still to his enemies, as having this character, and urging the fact that they “had” such a character as a reason why God should hear him, and deliver him. The word “foolish” here, הוללים hôleliym, is used to denote the wicked, under the common idea in the Scriptures that sin is folly. Compare Psalms 14:1. It is rendered by Prof. Alexander, “the proud” or “insolent.” The Aramaic renders it “deriders;” Latin Vulgate: “unjust;” Septuagint “transgressors;” Gesenius, Lexicon, “proud.” So DeWette. The common idea, however, is the correct one, referring to the wicked under the idea that they were “fools,” as all sin is supreme folly.

Shall not stand in thy sight - Shall not be allowed to be in thy presence; that is, thou wilt not approve their cause, or favor them. See the notes at Psalms 1:5.

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity - All that do wrong. He refers here, also, to a general characteristic of God, but still with an implied and immediate reference to his enemies as sustaining this character, and as a reason why he appealed to God to defend his cause. Nothing is more constantly affirmed in the Scriptures than that God hates all forms of evil.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 5:5. The foolish shall not stand — He is a fool and a madman who is running himself out of breath for no prize, who is fighting against the Almighty; this every wicked man does; therefore is every wicked man a fool and a madman.

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity — Some sin now and then, others generally; some constantly, and some labour in it with all their might. These are the WORKERS of iniquity. Such even the God of infinite love and mercy hates. Alas! what a portion have the workers of iniquity! the hatred of God Almighty!


 
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