What does Psalm 37:32 mean?

Personal experience taught David that a sharp conflict exists between the wicked and the righteous. Broadly speaking, conflicts in David's life were between those who honored God and those who did not. David, while imperfect, was known as a man after God's own heart, but he was marked for death by the disobedient King Saul (1 Samuel 13:13–14; Acts 13:22). He observes, from such examples, that the wicked person lies in wait for an opportunity to kill the righteous person (Proverbs 24:15).

The animosity of Judas and Israel's wicked religious leaders toward Jesus also illustrates this truth. Judas, not a believer though one of Jesus' closest companions, conspired to lay a trap allowing Jesus to be captured away from the public eye (Matthew 26:14–16).

In the long-lasting conflict between good and evil, the evil world system under the rule of the Devil (John 14:30) opposes God's righteous people. Jesus told His disciples, "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you" (John 15:19).