Psalms 73:4

“For there are no bands in their death, etc.] Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at ease and quiet, without any bitterness of soul; (see <182113>Job 21:13,23,25), or “there are no bands until their death” f1016; they have no straits nor difficulties all their life long, no distempers nor diseases which may be called “bonds”, (<421312>Luke 13:12,13,16), till they come to die: the Vulgate Latin version is, “there is no respect to their death”; they take no notice of it, they have no care or concern about it; or, as the Targum, “they are not terrified nor troubled because of…”

“For there are no bands in their death - The word rendered “bands” here means properly “cords tightly drawn,” Isaiah 58:6; then, pains, pangs, torments - “as if” one were twisted or tortured with pain, as a cord is closely twisted. The word occurs only in Isaiah 58:6, and in this place. The fact which is here referred to by the psalmist, and which gave him so much uneasiness, was that which so often occurs, that when the wicked die, they do not seem to suffer in proportion to their wickedness; or there seem to be no special marks of the divine displeasure as they are about to leave the world. They have lived in prosperity, and they die in peace. There is no uncommon agony in death; there is…”

“No bands - They are not dragged to death, by the sentence of the magistrate, which they deserve. Psalms 73:5”

“73:4-12 The psalmist presents a caricature of the bliss of the wicked (cp. Ps 1).”

“no: Psa 17:14; Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Job 24:20; Ecc 2:16, Ecc 7:15; Luk 16:22 firm: Heb. fat, Psa 17:10 Psalms 73:5”