“For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.”
The description of the wicked's ease and freedom from burden articulates the apparent comfort and security of those opposed to God. The reference to plague not touching them indicates that the wicked seem exempt from the afflictions that strike the righteous. This verse deepens the apparent injustice: not only do the wicked prosper, but they seem to escape the normal human experience of suffering.
Church Fathers on Psalms 73:4
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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