Psalm 12:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, When the vilest men are exalted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The wicked walk or prowl about on every side, as vileness is exalted [and baseness is rated high] among the sons of men.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Common English Bible

⁸ The wicked roam all over the place, while depravity is praised by human beings.

Psalm 12:8 Cross References

Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Daniel 11:21

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Hosea 5:11

E´phra-im is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.