Psalm 73:18
Verse 18 of 28. The 73rd of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.
14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Psalm 73:18 in the World English Bible
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.Read Psalm 73:18 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Psalm 73:18
The high places in which Providence sets them are slippery places (v. 18), where they cannot long keep footing; but, when they offer to climb higher, that very attempt will be the occasion of their sliding and falling. Their prosperity has no firm ground; it is not built upon God's favour or his promise; and they have not the satisfaction of feeling that it rests on firm ground.
Read Matthew Henry on Psalm 73:15–20: The End of the Wicked.
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