Psalms 36:12

36:12 I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! ¹ 

They have been knocked down and are unable to get up! ² 

[36:12]  ¹ tn Heb “there the workers of wickedness have fallen.” The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here for dramatic effect, as the psalmist envisions the evildoers lying fallen at a spot that is vivid in his imagination (BDB 1027 s.v.).

[36:12]  ² tn The psalmist uses perfect verbal forms in v. 12 to describe the demise of the wicked as if it has already taken place.