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They do not have ordinary trouble,[a]
and they are not plagued as other people.[b]
Therefore pride is their necklace;
an outfit of violence covers them.
Their eye bulges from fat.[c]
Imaginings overflow their heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:5 Literally “the trouble of man”
  2. Psalm 73:5 Hebrew “humankind”
  3. Psalm 73:7 A slightly different Hebrew reading might be reflected in the LXX’s “their iniquity comes out of fatness”

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