Psalms 73:22 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I wasasa beast before thee.

WEB

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

YLT

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

DBT

Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

17 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Psalms 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Psalms 49:10
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Fretfulness is a corruption that is its own correction. Now in the reflection upon it, 1. He owns it was his folly thus to vex himself: " So foolish was I to be my own tormentor." Let peevish people thus reproach themselves for, and shame themselves out of, their discontents.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The psalmist designs an account of a temptation he was strongly assaulted with--to envy the prosperity of the wicked, a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many of the saints. He lays down, in the first place, that great principle which he is resolved to abide by and not to quit while he was parleying with this temptation,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Nevertheless - Although I gave thee just cause to cast me off, yet thou didst continue thy care and kindness to me. Hast held - That my faith might not fail.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 73:22ISA 1:3 JER 4:22
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 73:22ISA 1:3 JER 8:7
PSA 73:22ISA 1:3 ISA 44:18
PSA 73:22ISA 1:3 MAT 13:13-15
PSA 73:22ISA 1:3 ISA 5:12
PSA 73:22PSA 32:9 PRO 26:3
PSA 73:22PSA 49:10 HEB 9:27
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 73:22PSA 92:6 PSA 94:8

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