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3For I was envious{H8765)} at the foolish{H8802)}, when I saw{H8799)} the prosperity of the wicked.
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
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?
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
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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…
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