Psalm 73:5

5 They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

Psalm 73:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 73:5

They are not in trouble, as other men
Either of body or of mind, as the saints are, who through many tribulations enter the kingdom; or are not in "labour" ^F8, do not labour for food and raiment, or get their bread by the sweat of their brow, as poor men do; nor are weary, so Arama: "neither are they plagued like other men"; smitten of God, corrected, and chastised by him, as his children are; the rod of God is not upon them, ( Job 21:9 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (lmeb) "in labore", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus.

Psalm 73:5 In-Context

3 because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.

4 For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

5 They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

6 Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.

7 Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "the trouble of man"
• [b] Hebrew "humankind"