Psalms 73:22
Arise, O God, plead thy cause: 1 Remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
In Context
21Let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: 1 The poor and needy shall praise thy name. 1
Cross References
Job 18:3For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes? 1
Psalms 49:10For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, 1 The cattle on the mountains, and oxen. 1
Proverbs 30:2For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:22-28
Devout Confidence. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far… Read the whole commentary →