“Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.”
The affirmation that the wicked are always at ease and increase in wealth articulates the apparent endless prosperity of the wicked. The reference to increasing wealth indicates that their fortune grows. This verse reiterates the core problem: the wicked's prosperity seems unbounded.
Church Fathers on Psalms 73:12
1. This Psalm has an inscription, that is, a title, “There have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm of Asaph himself.” So many Psalms we have on the titles whereof is written the name David, nowhere there is added, “son of Jesse,” except in this alone. Which we must believe has not been done to no purpose, nor capriciously. For everywhere God does make intimations to us, and to the understanding thereof does invite the godly study of love. What is, “there…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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