Psalms 73:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Psalms 73:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Hosea 12:7-8
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. …
Jeremiah 5:17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. “However it be, yet God is good.” Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

10-12. Hence God’s people are confounded, turned hither (or back) and thither, perplexed with doubts of God’s knowledge and care, and filled with sorrow.