Psalms 73:8
They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
In Context
7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 1:9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.
1 Kings 21:7And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.
Psalms 10:2The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who [is] lord over us?
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
Proverbs 30:13there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
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 →