God’s Word Translation
Psalms 73:4
4They suffer no pain. Their bodies are healthy.
Psalms 73:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
- New International Version (NIV)They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For there are no pangs in their death, But their strength is firm.
Context of Psalms 73:4
2But my feet had almost stumbled. They had almost slipped 3because I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the prosperity that wicked people enjoy. They suffer no pain. Their bodies are healthy. 5They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued ⌞with problems⌟ like others. 6That is why they wear arrogance like a necklace and acts of violence like clothing.
Read all of Psalms 73Psalms 73:4 word by word
כִּ֤י אֵ֖ין חַרְצֻבּ֥וֹת לְמוֹתָ֗ם וּבָרִ֥יא אוּלָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 73:4
- Psalms 17:14With your power rescue me from mortals, O Lord, from mortals who enjoy their inheritance only in this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied ⌞with it⌟, and they leave what remains to their children.
- Job 21:23One person dies in his prime and feels altogether happy and contented.
- Job 24:20The womb forgets them. Worms feast on them. No one remembers them anymore, and wickedness is snapped like a twig.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16Neither the wise person nor the fool will be remembered for long, since both will be forgotten in the days to come. Both the wise person and the fool will die.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15I have seen it all in my pointless life: Righteous people die in spite of being righteous. Wicked people go on living in spite of being wicked.
- Luke 16:22“One day the beggar died, and the angels carried him to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
- Psalms 17:10They have shut out all feeling. Their mouths have spoken arrogantly.
Commentaries on Psalms 73:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4No bands in their death - Many of the godly have sore conflicts at their death. Their enemy then thrusts sore at them that they may fall; or that their confidence in their God may be shaken. But of this the ungodly know nothing. Satan will not molest them; he is sure of his prey; they are entangled, and cannot now break their nets; their consciences are seared, they have no sense of guilt. If they think at all of another world, they presume on that mercy…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For there are no bands in their death - The word rendered “bands” here means properly “cords tightly drawn,” Isaiah 58:6; then, pains, pangs, torments - “as if” one were twisted or tortured with pain, as a cord is closely twisted. The word occurs only in Isaiah 58:6, and in this place. The fact which is here referred to by the psalmist, and which gave him so much uneasiness, was that which so often occurs, that when the wicked die, they do not seem to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-12The psalmist gives an exaggerated picture of the happiness of the wicked (compare Psalm 1).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-93-9. The prosperous wicked are insolently proud (compare Psa 5:5). They die, as well as live, free from perplexities: pride adorns them, and violence is their clothing; indeed they are inflated with unexpected success. With all this--Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 73
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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