Psalm 73:3 {72:3}
Good News Translation
because I was jealous of the proud when I saw that things go well for the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
because it made me jealous to see proud and evil people and to watch them prosper.

New American Bible
Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

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Psalm 37:1,7 Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity. . . .

Job 21:7 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Proverbs 3:31 For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is with the simple.

Proverbs 24:1 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

James 4:5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.…
Cross References
Job 21:7
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Psalm 5:5
Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

Psalm 17:14
From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.

Psalm 37:1
Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.

Psalm 37:7
Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Psalm 73:4
For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

Proverbs 23:17
Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:

Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.

Jeremiah 12:1
Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Psalm 73:2
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