Psalm 73:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ For I was envious of the boasters, When I saw the peace of the wrong-doers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For I was envious at the foolish, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For I was envious of the foolish and arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Common English Bible

³ because I envied the arrogant; I observed how the wicked are well off:

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!

Psalm 73:3 Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Ě

Job 17:8

Upright ones are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the defiled one.

Job 21:7

Why do the wrong live, become old, and become mighty in power?

Job 24:23

He gives him safety, and he leans on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous! Your right-rulings are on high, out of his sight! He snorts at all his adversaries!

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of evil-doers, Do not be envious of the workers of unrighteousness.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in יהוה, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices.

Proverbs 23:17

Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of יהוה  all day long;

Proverbs 24:1

Do not envy evil men, Nor desire to be with them;

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy a cruel man, And choose none of his ways;

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen it all in my days of futility: There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong one living long in his evil.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?

Malachi 3:15

‘And now we are calling the proud blessed – not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.’ ”

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which dwells in us intensely crave unto envy?