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Psalms 73:5

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 73:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men (comp. ). There is, no doubt, something of Oriental hyperbole in this representation, as there is in the account given by Job (l.

s.c.), which he afterwards qualifies (). But still a certain immunity from suffering does seem often to attach to the wicked man, whom God does not chasten, because chastening would be of no service to him.

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