Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms 73:6 in other translations
| BSB | Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them. |
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| WEB | Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. |
| ASV | Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment. |
| YLT | Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. |
| DARBY | Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment; |
| BBE | For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. |
| Webster | Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. |
What does Psalms 73:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 73:3-9
3-9. The prosperous wicked are insolently proud (compare Psa 5:5). They die, as well as live, free from perplexities: pride adorns them, and violence is their clothing; indeed they are inflated with unexpected success. With all this--
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 73:1-14
The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved to abide. It is the goodness of God. This is a truth which cannot be shaken. Good thoughts of God will fortify against Satan's temptations. The faith even of strong believers may be sorely shaken, and ready to fail. There are…
Psalms 73:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 73:6
- Psalms 109:18
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
- 1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
- Daniel 4:30
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
- Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- Judges 8:26
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
- Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Deuteronomy 8:13-14
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
- Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Micah 2:1-2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Ezekiel 28:2-5
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
- Genesis 41:42
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 8:13,14; 32:15; Es 3:1,5,6; 5:9-11; Job 21:7-15; Ec 8:11
Jer 48:11,29; Eze 28:2-5; Da 4:30
as a chain.
Jud 8:26; Pr 1:9; So 4:9; Isa 3:19; Eze 16:11
violence.
Pr 3:31; *marg:
Pr 4:17; Mic 2:1,2; 3:5; Jas 5:4-6
covereth.
109:18,29; 1Pe 5:5
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Context
- Psalms 73:5
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
- Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psalms 73:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por tanto soberbia los corona: cúbrense de vestido de violencia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est pourquoi l’orgueil les entoure comme un collier, la violence les couvre comme un vêtement; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deshalb umgibt sie der Hochmut wie ein Halsgeschmeide, Gewalttat umhüllt sie wie ein Gewand. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | exciderunt januas ejus in idipsum; in securi et ascia dejecerunt eam. |