Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 73:3
I grudged and murmured at it, and had a secret desire to partake of their delicates.
I grudged and murmured at it, and had a secret desire to partake of their delicates.
Verse Psalms 73:3. _I WAS ENVIOUS AT THE FOOLISH_] I saw persons who _worshipped not_ the true God, and others who were _abandoned to_ _all vices_, in possession of every temporal comfort, while the...
FOR I WAS ENVIOUS AT THE FOOLISH - The word “foolish” here refers to sinners. It may either refer to them as foolish, or as proud, insolent, vain - for so the word is elsewhere used. See Psalms 14:1....
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of th...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death...
FOOLISH. arrogant, or boasters. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._...
Faith tried by the sight of the prosperity of the wicked....
_I was envious_ Cp. Psalms 37:1; and the repeated warnings of the Book of Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 24:1;...
The cause: the unbroken prosperity of the godless. Cp. Job's indignant complaint, Psalms 21:7 ff....
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. FOR I WAS ENVIOUS AT THE FOOLISH - Hebrew, 'the foolishly insolent' or 'haughty' [from haalal (H1984), to boast foolishly]...
FOOLISH] RV 'arrogant.'...
BOOK 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of Psalms...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 Jesus said, "Make sure that your valuable things are in *heaven". ...
FOOLISH. — Better, _arrogant._ WHEN I SAW. — Perhaps the conjunction is wrongly supplied, and the word “saw” here is synonymous with “envied” in the first clause. (Comp. Latin _invideo._)...
כִּֽי ־קִ֭נֵּאתִי בַּֽ † הֹולְלִ֑ים שְׁלֹ֖ום רְשָׁעִ֣ים...
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY Psalms 73:1 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30. The r.v. margin substitutes _only_ for _surely_ in Psalms 73:1. There is none go...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tell...
Hands. Hebrew, "feet," (Montanus; Haydock) or "strokes," phehamec. (Berthier) --- "The elevation of thy feet (thy foot-stool, or temple; Calmet) is destroyed unto the end;" (St. Jerome) or "for victor...
The Psalmist here opens the subject which had so much tended to stagger his faith. It appears, the question which arose in his mind, and gave him such uneasy thoughts concerning God's providence, was,...
3._For I envied the foolish _(154) Here he declares the nature of the temptation with which he was assailed. It consisted in this, that when he saw the present prosperous state of the wicked, and from...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
FOR I WAS ENVIOUS AT THE FOOLISH,.... The atheists, as in Psalms 14:1, who deny the creation, as Arama; the wicked, as after explained, as all wicked men are, how wise soever they may be in things na...
_For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked._ Ver. 3. _For I was envious at the foolish_] Heb. at the _braggadocios,_ the vain glorious, the mad boasters; _factabundi...
_But as for me_ Yet I must acknowledge with grief and shame, concerning myself, that notwithstanding all my knowledge of this truth, and my own experience and observation of God's dealings with me and...
COMFORT AND WARNING CONCERNING THE OFFENSE GIVEN BY THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:2. A Reflection upon the...
For I was envious at the foolish, filled with anger at the proud boasting of the ungodly, WHEN I SAW THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED, when he noted the fact that they were living in peace, that nothing b...
1-14 The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved...
Psalms 73:3 envious H7065 (H8765) boastful H1984 (H8802) saw H7200 (H8799) prosperity H7965 wicked H7563...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly, o...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; and you shall find that those who sing the sweetest t...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he also knew that he was greatly tried, whereas he sa...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim the clear vision of faith. Psalms 73:1. _Truly Go...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1....
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicked...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezek...
_Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE TROUBLE OF ASAPH In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they should...
_I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked._ A POPULAR FALLACY EXPOSED The position I wish to lay down is this:--that the condition of the godly poor even in this world, i...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,”_ or, as in the margin, “_for Asaph_.” See introduction to Psalms 50. _Subject_.—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tempora...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
James 4:5; Jeremiah 12:1; Job 21:7; Proverbs 24:1; Proverbs 3:31;...