They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not (A)stricken like the rest of mankind.
Therefore pride is (B)their necklace;
    violence covers them as (C)a garment.
Their (D)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.
They scoff and (E)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.

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They are free(A) from common human burdens;
    they are not plagued by human ills.
Therefore pride(B) is their necklace;(C)
    they clothe themselves with violence.(D)
From their callous hearts(E) comes iniquity[a];
    their evil imaginations have no limits.
They scoff, and speak with malice;(F)
    with arrogance(G) they threaten oppression.(H)
Their mouths lay claim to heaven,
    and their tongues take possession of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:7 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew Their eyes bulge with fat