Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
In Context
14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.
Psalms 22:30Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
Malachi 2:8But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies.
Romans 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
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 →