Psa 37:35 | NETfull | STEP | I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

Psalms 37:35

35 I have seen ruthless evil men ^{▼▼ The Hebrew uses the representative singular again here.}
growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. ^{▼▼ Heb “being exposed [?] like a native, luxuriant.” The Hebrew form מִתְעָרֶה (mit’areh) appears to be a Hitpael participle from עָרָה (’arah, “be exposed”), but this makes no sense in this context. Perhaps the form is a dialectal variant of מִתְעָלָה (“giving oneself an air of importance”; see Jer 51:3), from עָלָה (’alah, “go up”; see P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1–50 [WBC], 296). The noun אֶזְרָח (’ezrakh, “native, full citizen”) refers elsewhere to people, but here, where it is collocated with “luxuriant, green,” it probably refers to a tree growing in native soil.}