Psalms 73:14
for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
In Context
13Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
Cross References
Job 7:3so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 10:3Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Hebrews 12:5And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:2-15
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7… Read the whole commentary →