Psalms 73:4

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

For (there are) no bands in their death - or 'even up to [lª-: note, ] their death. The same Hebrew occurs in . Bands, which tie one, are a figure of pains: as another similar Hebrew word is used, margin, , "the cords of hell compassed me about." The wicked, thought the Psalmist, have no pains to enchain them either luring life or in dying. Passion and impatience in the Psalmist's mind here exaggerated, as is usual, the real fact. God really suspends death-bringing circumstances over the wicked (, Hebrew; ; cf. the phrase, ). In Psalms 73:17 the Psalmist describes himself as at last learning from God that the wicked are not, as he thought from a superficial view, exempt from the sudden death-stroke.

But their strength is firm - (.)