Psalms 73:4
For there are no deadly fetters for them, but their strength is firm.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
In Context
3For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
5They share not in the trouble of mortals, and with men are they not afflicted.
Cross References
Job 15:27Because he had covered his face with his fat, and had made thick folds of fat on his flanks;
Job 21:23That this one dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no recollection of the wise any more than of the fool for ever: seeing that which hath long ago been will, in the days that are coming, all be forgotten. And how doth the wise die equally with the fool!
Jeremiah 5:28They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no [just] sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.
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 →