Psalms 73:4

No bands — They are not dragged to death, by the sentence of the magistrate, which they deserve.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For there are no bands in their death - The word rendered “bands” here means properly “cords tightly drawn,” Isaiah 58:6 ; then, pains, pangs, t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For [there are] (b) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. (b) The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death l...
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.*, believe...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bands: or pangs. The Massorah calls attention to this Homonym ( harzuboth ) as occurring not only twice, but in two different senses. The other...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4 For there are no bands to their death. The Psalmist describes the comforts and advantages of the ungodly, which are as it were so many tem...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. No bands in their death - Many of the godly have sore conflicts at their death...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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. Th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For there are no bands in their death. — This is quite unintelligible, and does not fairly render the Hebrew, which gives, For there are no bands...
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-...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

He here draws the outlines of the prosperity of the wicked: they have all carnal enjoyments, the good things brought forth by the sun, and the precio...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For there are no bands in their death ,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of bo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. Ver. 4. For there are no bands in their death ] Or, no knots and knarls; th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For there are no bands in their death They are not violently dragged to an untimely death, either by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There are no bands in their death; they are not dragged to death, neither by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which yet they deserve; nor b...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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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...
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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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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 her...
The Biblical Illustrator

For there are no bands in their death. No bands in the death of the wicked I. Their minds are occupied exclusively with the things of a present...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Comfort and Warning Concerning the Offense Given by the Good Fortune of the Godless. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chron...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For there are no bands in their death, they are not plagued with sufferings which make them weary unto death; but their strength is firm, well nour...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:16 ; Ecclesiastes 7:15 ; Job 21:23 ; Job 21:24 ; Job 24:20 ; Luke 16:22 ; Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 17:14

⁴ For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.a

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:4