Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
In Context
6Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:2And there was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel. And the man was very great [in goods], and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Esther 3:11And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to thee.
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.
Isaiah 3:9The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.
Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.
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 →