What is the context?
The speaker recalls a ruthless person flourishing like a native tree and then disappearing. Present reach and visible strength did not secure permanence.
The listener is told instead to attend to integrity and the future of the peaceable. The closing confession places salvation and refuge with the Lord in trouble.
The ending answers the opening temptation to envy. A life’s true future cannot be read from the impressive appearance of one present season.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley understands the ending as peace beyond troubles along the way. His older end-of-the-person wording differs from the BSB’s posterity and future language. The distinction matters without changing the contrast between lasting refuge and passing wicked success.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.