King James Version
Psalms 91:8 in the King James Version says “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 91 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.”
Psalms 91:8 · KJV
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
“Only with thine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“shalt thou behold”
H5027to scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
“and see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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