foolish. brutish.
So foolish was I, and ignorant - Such low and imperfect views did I take of the subject. The margin is, “I knew not.” So the Hebrew: “And I am br...
So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a (l) beast before thee. (l) For the more that man goes about by his own reason to seek out God's judgm...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believe...
22. And I was foolish and ignorant. David here rebuking himself sharply, as it became him to do, in the first place declares that he was foo...
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Thus my heart was grieved— I was disturbed with envy and indignation at the prosperity of the wicked. The word rendered a beast, in the next ve...
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. -He condemns his past beastlike folly and expresses his assurance of God's presence...
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. Th...
Foolish] RV 'brutish.'
Foolish. — Better, brutish.
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-...
The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and the purity o...
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...
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...
So foolish was I ,.... To envy the prosperity of the wicked, which is of so short a continuance; to arraign the providence and perfections of God, a...
So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee. Ver. 22. So foolish was I and ignorant ] By this befooling and be beasting himse...
Thus my heart was grieved I was disturbed, so as I have expressed, with envy and indignation at the prosperity of the wicked. Hebrew, יתחמצ לבבי,...
Devout Confidence. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in...
As a beast. Heb. beasts , which may signify a great beast; a most stupid and sottish creature, like one not only void of grace, but of reason too;...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental diff...
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 prosperit...
Psalms 73:22-24 I. Consider the character and condition of this man at first, and before he was turned to the Lord: "So foolish was I, and ignoran...
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...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; an...
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 Chr...
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 her...
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of Thy children. Searching and finding relief in the right direction...
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee. Flesh and spirit a riddle What secrets of inward experience we have in our text....
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating us...
The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth
so foolish was I and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee, he would have been foolish and like an irrational animal before God if he had yielded to...
Ecclesiastes 3:18 ; Isaiah 1:3 ; Proverbs 30:2 ; Psalms 32:9 ; Psalms 69:5 ; Psalms 9:1
Nevertheless — Although I gave thee just cause to cast me off, yet thou didst continue thy care and kindness to me. Hast held — That my faith might...
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant:c I was as a beast before thee.d