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For they suffer no pain;
    their bodies are healthy and sleek.
They are free of the burdens of life;
    they are not afflicted like others.
Thus pride adorns them as a necklace;
    violence clothes them as a robe.
Out of such blindness comes sin;
    evil thoughts flood their hearts.(A)
They scoff and spout their malice;
    from on high they utter threats.(B)
[a]They set their mouths against the heavens,
    their tongues roam the earth.
10 [b]So my people turn to them
    and drink deeply of their words.
11 They say, “Does God really know?”
    “Does the Most High have any knowledge?”(C)
12 Such, then, are the wicked,
    always carefree, increasing their wealth.

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Footnotes

  1. 73:9 They set their mouths against the heavens: in an image probably derived from mythic stories of half-divine giants, the monstrous speech of the wicked is likened to enormous jaws gaping wide, devouring everything in sight.
  2. 73:10 The Hebrew is obscure.