Psalms 73:4
For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
In Context
3For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
5They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
Cross References
Job 15:27Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
Job 21:23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
Psalms 17:10They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten. And howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?
Jeremiah 5:28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.
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 →