New English Translation
Psalms 73:6
6Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.
Psalms 73:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
Context of Psalms 73:6
4For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed. 5They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do. Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing. 7Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful. 8They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.
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לָ֭כֵן עֲנָקַ֣תְמוֹ גַאֲוָ֑ה יַעֲטָף־שִׁ֝֗ית חָמָ֥ס לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 73:6
- Deuteronomy 8:13when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
- Esther 3:1Some time later King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, exalting him and setting his position above that of all the officials who were with him.
- Esther 5:9Now Haman went forth that day pleased and very much encouraged. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king’s gate, and he did not rise nor tremble in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
- Job 21:7“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
- Jeremiah 48:11“From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged.
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Your heart is proud and you said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” – yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
- Daniel 4:30The king uttered these words: “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”
- Judges 8:26The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.
- Proverbs 1:9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
- Isaiah 3:19earrings, bracelets, veils,
- Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.
- Proverbs 3:31Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;
- Proverbs 4:17For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
- Micah 2:1Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
Commentaries on Psalms 73:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Pride compasseth them about as a chain - Perhaps there is an allusion here to the office which some of them bore. Chains of gold, and golden rings, were ensigns of magistracy and civil power. As these chains encompassed their necks, or the rings their wrists and fingers, as the signs of the offices in virtue of which they acted; so חמס chamas, violence, oppressive conduct, encompassed them. They made no other use of their great power, than to oppress the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - Therefore they are proud, haughty, imperious. They put on the ornaments and trappings of pride; their clothing and their adorning all are indicative of a proud heart. They seem to imagine that they are better than others, and that they are treated in this manner “because” they are better than others. In the original it is a single word which is rendered “compasseth about as a chain.” The word means “to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Proud people choose pride and cruelty over wisdom (Proverbs 1:9).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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