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For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.(A)

They have an easy time until they die,[a]
and their bodies are well fed.[b](B)
They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.(C)
Therefore, pride is their necklace,
and violence covers them like a garment.(D)
Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.(E)
They mock, and they speak maliciously;
they arrogantly threaten oppression.(F)
They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues strut across the earth.(G)
10 Therefore his people turn to them[c]
and drink in their overflowing words.[d](H)
11 The wicked say, ‘How can God know?
Does the Most High know everything? ’(I)
12 Look at them – the wicked!
They are always at ease,
and they increase their wealth.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 73:4 Lit For there are no pangs to their death
  2. 73:4 Lit fat
  3. 73:10 Lit turn here
  4. 73:10 Lit and waters of fullness are drained by them