Psalms 73:7
Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
In Context
6dummy verses inserted by amos
8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:2Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Esther 3:11And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it for thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to thee.
Psalms 17:10they have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
Psalms 73:12Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
Isaiah 3:9The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.
Ezekiel 16:49Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor.
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 →