(A)For I was (B)envious of the arrogant
    when I saw the (C)prosperity of the wicked.

For they have no pangs until death;
    their bodies are fat and sleek.
They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not (D)stricken like the rest of mankind.
Therefore pride is (E)their necklace;
    violence covers them as (F)a garment.
Their (G)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.
They scoff and (H)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
    and find (I)no fault in them.[a]
11 And they say, (J)“How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them

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