Psalms 73:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalms 73:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Job 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

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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. 7)

3-9. The prosperous wicked are insolently proud (compare Psa 5:5). They die, as well as live, free from perplexities: pride adorns them, and violence is their clothing; indeed they are inflated with unexpected success. With all this--