Psalm 73:1-3,Psalm 73:12-13,Psalm 73:16-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 73:1-14

This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. ?However it be, yet God is good.? Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he is, in a peculiar manner, good to Israel; they have favours from him which others have not. The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel ,.... To Israel, literally understood; in choosing them to be his people above all people on earth; in bringing them into a good land; in favouring them with many external privileges, civil and religious; in giving them his word, statutes, and ordinances, as he did not to other nations: or, spiritually understood, the Israel whom God has chosen, redeemed, and called by his special grace; verily of a truth, God is good to these; there is abundant proof and evidence... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:2

But as for me ,.... Who am one of the Israel of God whose heart has been renewed and purified by the grace of God, and to whom he has been kind and good in a thousand instances; yet, ungrateful creature that I am, my feet were almost gone ; out of the good ways of God, the ways of truth and holiness just upon the turn, ready to forsake them, and give up all religion as a vain thing: my steps had well nigh slipped , or "poured out" F3 שפכה "effusi sunt", V. L. Pagninus,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:3

For I was envious at the foolish ,.... The atheists, as in Psalm 14:1 , who deny the creation, as Arama; the wicked, as after explained, as all wicked men are, how wise soever they may be in things natural and civil, yet in religious things, in things of a spiritual nature, they have no understanding; they are proud boasters, glory in themselves, and in their outward attainments, as the word F4 בהוללים "in arrogantes", Gejerus; "stolide gloriosos", Michaelis; "at vain glorious... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel - Captives as they were, they still had many blessings from God; and they had promises of deliverance, which must be fulfilled in due time. Such as are of a clean heart - Those who have a clean heart must have inward happiness: and, because they resemble God, they can never be forsaken by him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:2

My feet were almost gone - I had nearly given up my confidence. I was ready to find fault with the dispensations of providence; and thought the Judge of all the earth did not do right. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:3

I was envious at the foolish - I saw persons who worshipped not the true God, and others who were abandoned to all vices, in possession of every temporal comfort, while the godly were in straits, difficulties, and affliction. I began then to doubt whether there was a wise providence; and my mind became irritated. It seems to have been a maxim among the ancient heathens, Θεου ονειδος τους κακους ευδαιμονειν , "The prosperity of the wicked is a reproach to the gods." But they had no just... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1

Verse 1 As to the author of this psalm, I am not disposed to contend very strongly, although I think it probable that the name of Asaph was prefixed to it because the charge of singing it was committed to him, while the name of David, its author, was omitted, just as it is usual for us, when things are well known of themselves, not to be at the trouble of stating them. How much profit we may derive from meditation upon the doctrine contained in this psalm, it is easy to discover from the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:2

Verse 2 2.As for me, etc. Literally, it is, And I: which ought to be read with emphasis; for David means that those temptations, which cast an affront upon the honor of God, and overwhelm faith, not only assail the common class of men, or those who are endued only with some small measure of the fear of God, but that he himself, who ought to have profited above all others in the school of God, had experienced his own share of them. By thus setting himself forth as an example, he designed the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:3

Verse 3 3.For I envied the foolish (154) Here he declares the nature of the temptation with which he was assailed. It consisted in this, that when he saw the present prosperous state of the wicked, and from it judged them to be happy, he had envied their condition. We are certainly under a grievous and a dangerous temptation, when we not only, in our own minds, quarrel with God for not setting matters in due order, but also when we give ourselves loose reins, boldly to commit iniquity, because... read more

Psalm 73:1-3,psalm 73:12-13,psalm 73:16-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 73:1-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:3

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