Psalms 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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

foolish . brutish.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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

Foolish] RV 'brutish.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Foolish. — Better, brutish.
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

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...
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

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Devout Confidence. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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;...
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 diff...
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 prosperit...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
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...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

«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...
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 Chr...
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

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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....
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 us...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 3:18 ; Isaiah 1:3 ; Proverbs 30:2 ; Psalms 32:9 ; Psalms 69:5 ; Psalms 9:1
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:22

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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 73:22