Psalms 73:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. ”

• Psalms 73:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If I say, I will speak thus - If I should resolve to give expression to my feelings. If I should utter all that is passing in my mind and my heart. It is implied here that he had “not” given utte...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  If I say, (g) I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children. (g) If I give place to this wicked thought, I offend against your providence, seeing you do all thi...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. offend . deal treacherously. Hebrew. bagad. children . sons.

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• Psalms 73:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  15. If I should say, I will speak thus. David, perceiving the sinfulness of the thoughts with which he was tempted, puts a bridle upon himself, and reproves his inconstancy in allowing his m...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. If I say, I will speak thus - I have at last discovered that I have reasoned incorrectly; and that I hav...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If I say, I will speak thus, &c.— Reckon or reason thus:—I should offend against the generation of thy children; i.e. "I should give the lie to the history of our forefathers." See Peters,...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. -The mental conflict which resulted in the Psalmist's mind from the anomalous prosperity of sinners. Verse 12...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Book 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  If I say... — Or, If, thought I, I should reason thus, I should be faithless to the generation of thy sons. Or, perhaps, if it ever occurred to my mind to speak thus, the Hebrew often using two...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 73:1-28 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1-40 ; Psalms 49:1-20 . It tells how the prosperity...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Deceptive Prosperity Psalms 73:1-15 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30 . The r.v. margin substitutes only for surely in Psalms 73:1 . The...

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• Psalms 73:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tel...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do mark what it was which the Lord blessed to the mind of his servant: namely, his visits to the sanctuary. It is in God's house that we are brought acquainted with God's ways. The secret of...

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• Psalms 73:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE RECTIFYING INFLUENCE OF THE SANCTUARY ‘Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I the end of these men.’ Psalms...

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• Psalms 73:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If I say, I will speak thus ,.... Either as the wicked do, Psalms 73:8 or rather as he had thought in his own mind, Psalms 73:13 , wherefore he kept it all to himself, and did not make known to...

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• Psalms 73:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children. Ver. 15. If I say I will speak thus ] If I should give way to such a wicked thought, &c. Here the...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I say, I will speak thus I will give sentence for the ungodly in this manner. I should offend against the generation of thy children By grieving, discouraging, and condemning them, and by te...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The End of the Wicked.       15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will speak thus; I will give sentence for the ungodly in this manner. I should offend against the generation of thy children, by grieving, and discouraging, and condemning them, and by tempting...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tem...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1...

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• Psalms 73:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 1 Chronicles 25:1 . Eleven other psalms bear his name....

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• Psalms 73:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. The trouble of Asaph In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they sh...

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• Psalms 73:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by...

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• Psalms 73:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth

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• Psalms 73:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 8:11-13 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:24 ; Malachi 2:8 ; Matthew 18:6 ; Matthew 18:7 ; Psalms 22:30 ; Psalms 24:6 ; Romans 14:15 ; Romans 14:21

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• Psalms 73:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Offend — By grieving, discouraging and tempting them to revolt from God.

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