Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power (terrible, fierce, violent), and spreading himself like a green bay tree (a tree in its native soil, vigorous, and luxuriant, that had never been transplanted). A striking figure of the ungodly man of the world, firmly rooted in earthly things —his native soil, grown proud and wanton in his prosperity, without fear or apprehension of any reverse. William Wilson.