Psalm 92:6

6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

Psalm 92:6 in Other Translations

6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

6 The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

6 Only a simpleton would not know, and only a fool would not understand this:

6 Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.

6 A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

6 A stupid person cannot know and a fool cannot understand

6 A stupid person does not know, a fool does not understand this:

6 Here is something a man who isn't wise doesn't know. Here is what a foolish person doesn't understand.

Psalm 92:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 92:6

A brutish man knoweth not
The lovingkindness of the Lord, and his faithfulness, nor how to show them forth, nor his great works and deep thoughts; man was made originally far above the brute creatures, and had them all under his dominion; but, sinning, became like the beasts that perish; and is in Scripture often compared to one or other of them, as the horse, ass a brutish man is one that only knows things naturally, as brute beasts do, and in which also he corrupts himself; he is governed by sense, and not by reason, and much less by faith, which he has not; one that indulges his sensual appetite, whose god is his belly, and minds nothing but earth and earthly things; and, though he has an immortal soul, has no more care of it, and concern about it, than a beast that has none; he lives like one, without fear or shame; and in some things acts below them, and at last dies, as they do, without any thought of, or regard unto, a future state:

neither doth a fool understand this;
what is before said, or else what follows in the next verse, as Jarchi and others interpret it, concerning the end and event of the prosperity of the wicked; Arama interprets it of the Gentiles not knowing this law of the land, the sabbath, and so rejected it: a "fool" is the same with the "brutish" man, one that is so, not in things natural and civil, but in things moral, spiritual, and religious.

Psalm 92:6 In-Context

4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

5 How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!

6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

7 that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

8 But you, LORD, are forever exalted.

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 73:22