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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:16

Psalms 73:16. When I thought to know this To find out the reason and meaning of this mysterious course of Divine Providence, it was too painful for me I found it too hard a task to attain satisfaction, as to these points, by my own meditations and reasonings. Indeed, it is a problem not to be solved by the mere light of nature; for if there were not another life after this, we could not fully reconcile the prosperity of the wicked with the justice of God. Here, then, we have “a second... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:17

Psalms 73:17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God Till I consulted with the oracle, or word of God. He alludes to the practice of those times, which was in dark and difficult cases to resort to God’s sanctuary, and the oracle in it, for satisfaction. Then understood I their end There I learned that their prosperity was short, and would quickly have an end, and that a most terrible one; that their fair morning would be followed with a black and dreadful evening, and an everlasting... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:18

Psalms 73:18. Thou didst set them in slippery places Their happiness hath no firm foundation; it is very unstable, like a man’s standing on very slippery ground. Thou castedst them down into destruction The same hand which raised them will soon cast them down into utter ruin. “Worldly prosperity,” says Dr. Horne, “is as the narrow and slippery summit of a mountain, on which, to answer the designs of his providence, God permits the wicked, during his pleasure, to take their station; till,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:19-20

Psalms 73:19-20. They are brought to desolation as in a moment Their fall is wonderful, both for its greatness, and for its suddenness. They are utterly consumed with terrors With the horrors of their own minds; or rather, with God’s judgments unexpectedly seizing upon them. As a dream when one awaketh Their happiness is like that of a dream, wherein a man seems highly pleased and transported with ravishing delights, but when he awakes he finds himself deceived and unsatisfied. O... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:1-28

Psalms 73:0 Why do the wicked prosper?Asaph had a problem that almost caused him to give up the life of devotion to God. If God was a God of goodness who helped the righteous and opposed the wicked, why did worthless people prosper while Asaph suffered want (1-3)?It seemed to Asaph that the wicked enjoyed lives of ease and plenty, then died peacefully without suffering. Yet their lives had been characterized by pride, cruelty, greed, trickery, scorn, oppression and boasting (4-9). Some of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 73:16

thought = pondered [it]. Compare the same word in Psalms 77:5 . know = reconcile, or understand. too painful for me = vexation in mine eyes. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 73:17

the sanctuary. This is the book of the Sanctuary, and nearly every Psalm in it contains some reference to it, or to the congregation who worship in it. Then. Supply "Until" by the Figure of speech Anaphora. end = latter end, or hereafter. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 73:18

Surely. See note on "Truly", Psalms 73:1 . didst set = wilt set. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 73:19

How are they = How [is it that] they are. They are = [How is it that] they are. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 73:20

LORD *. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim by which they changed Jehovah, of the primitive text, to Adonai. App-32 . awakest = ariseth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . image = image of which they dreamt. read more

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