“Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.”
The assertion that God places the wicked on slippery ground and casts them down to ruin articulates that God is indeed aware of the wicked and has determined their destruction. The reference to slippery ground indicates precariousness; the wicked's apparent security is actually unstable. This verse articulates the resolution: God will judge the wicked.
Church Fathers on Psalms 73:18
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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