the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Psalms 73:4
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For there are no pains in their death,And their body is fat.
For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat.
For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong.
For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
For there are no pangs in their death, But their strength is firm.
For there are no pangs to their death; but their body is fat.
They are healthy. They don't have to struggle to survive.
For there are no struggles in their death, But their strength is firm.
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace.
For there are no pains in their death, Their body is fat and pampered.
For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.
For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.
For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.
For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.
For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.
They never have to suffer, they stay healthy,
For when their death comes, it is painless; and meanwhile, their bodies are healthy;
For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.
For there is no end to their death, and their folly is great.
For there are no struggles in their death, But their strength is firm.
For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.
For they suffer no pain in their death, and their body is fat.
For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
For they have no pain; their bodies are sound and sleek.
For they have no pangs in their death, And vigorous is their body;
(72-4) For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies are healthy.
For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
For there are no pains in their death, And their belly is fat.
They are not suffering; they are healthy and strong.
They do not suffer pain; they are strong and healthy.
They have an easy time until they die, and their bodies are well fed.
For biholdyng is not to the deth of hem; and stidefastnesse in the sikenesse of hem.
And their might [is] firm.
For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
Contextual Overview
A psalm of Asaph.
Truly God is good to Israel, to those whose hearts are pure. 2 But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone. 3 For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness. 4 They seem to live such painless lives; their bodies are so healthy and strong. 5 They don't have troubles like other people; they're not plagued with problems like everyone else. 6 They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty. 7 These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for! 8 They scoff and speak only evil; in their pride they seek to crush others. 9 They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut throughout the earth. 10 And so the people are dismayed and confused, drinking in all their words.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
no: Psalms 17:14, Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Job 24:20, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Luke 16:22
firm: Heb. fat, Psalms 17:10
Reciprocal: Job 21:13 - They Jeremiah 48:11 - hath been
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For there are no bands in their death,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at ease and quiet, without any bitterness of soul; see Job 21:13, or "there are no bands until their death" f; they have no straits nor difficulties all their life long, no distempers nor diseases which may be called "bonds", Luke 13:12, till they come to die: the Vulgate Latin version is, "there is no respect to their death"; they take no notice of it, they have no care or concern about it; or, as the Targum,
"they are not terrified nor troubled because of the day of their death;''
they put it away far from them, and think nothing about it: but their strength is firm; they are hale and robust, healthful and sound, to the day of their death; their strength is not weakened in the way by diseases and distempers. Some take the word rendered "strength" to signify a porch or palace, and translate it, they are strong as a palace, or in a palace, or their palace is strong g their houses are well built, and continue long.
f למותם "usque ad mortem eorum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. g אולם "palatium vel sicut palatium" so some in Piscator; "porticus", Schmidt; so R. Jonah, Arama, and Jerom.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For 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 suffer in proportion to their wickedness; or there seem to be no special marks of the divine displeasure as they are about to leave the world. They have lived in prosperity, and they die in peace. There is no uncommon agony in death; there is no special alarm about the future world. They have enjoyed this world, and a sinful life seems now to be followed by a peaceful death. They do not even suffer as much in death as good people often do; - what then is the advantage of piety? And how can we believe that God is just; or that he is the friend of the righteous; or even that there is a God? Of the fact here adverted to by the psalmist, that the wicked do thus live and die, there can be no doubt, and that fact has given perplexity to good people in all ages of the world.
But their strength is firm - Margin, as in Hebrew, “fat.” That is, They are not emaciated and weakened by disease, but they go down to death apparently from good health, and without wasting disease. See the notes at Job 21:23-26.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 73:4. No 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 which they never sought, and of which they have no distinct notion. Perhaps, "they die without a sigh or a groan; and thus go off as quiet as a lamb"-to the slaughter.
