| Psalm 73:22 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | I was stupid, and I did not understand. I was like a dumb animal in your presence.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. |
| ASV: | So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. |
| BBE: | As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you. |
| DBY: | Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. |
| ERV: | So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. |
| JPS: | But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee. |
| WBS: | So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. |
| WEB: | I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. |
| YLT: | And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee. |
| Psalm 73:22 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 18:3 "Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
Psalm 49:10 For he sees that even wise men die; The stupid and the senseless alike perish And leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 49:20 Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 92:6 A senseless man has no knowledge, Nor does a stupid man understand this:
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 73:22 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 judgments, the more he declares himself a beast. |
| WES: | 73:22 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 not fail. |
| MHC: | 73:21-28 God would not suffer his people to be tempted, if his grace were not sufficient, not only to save them from harm, but to make them gainers by it. This temptation, the working of envy and discontent, is very painful. In reflecting upon it, the psalmist owns it was his folly and ignorance thus to vex himself. If good men, at any time, through the surprise and strength of temptation, think, or speak, or act amiss, they will reflect upon it with sorrow and shame. We must ascribe our safety in temptation, and our victory, not to our own wisdom, but to the gracious presence of God with us, and Christ's intercession for us. All who commit themselves to God, shall be guided with the counsel both of his word and of his Spirit, the best counsellors here, and shall be received to his glory in another world; the believing hopes and prospects of which will reconcile us to all dark providences. And the psalmist was hereby quickened to cleave the closer to God. Heaven itself could not make us happy without the presence and love of our God. The world and all its glory vanishes. The body will fail by sickness, age, and death; when the flesh fails, the conduct, courage, and comfort fail. But Christ Jesus, our Lord, offers to be all in all to every poor sinner, who renounces all other portions and confidences. By sin we are all far from God. And a profession Christ, if we go on in sin, will increase our condemnation. May we draw near, and keep near, to our God, by faith and prayer, and find it good to do so. Those that with an upright heart put their trust in God, shall never want matter for thanksgiving to him. Blessed Lord, who hast so graciously promised to become our portion in the next world, prevent us from choosing any other in this. |
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