They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.(A)
Therefore, pride is their necklace,
and violence covers them like a garment.(B)
Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.(C)

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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.

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Footnotes

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