John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 73:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 the day of their death;” they put it away far from them, and think nothing about it: but their strength is firm; they are hale and robust, healthful and sound, to the day of their death; their strength is not weakened in the way by diseases and distempers. Some take the word rendered “strength” to signify a porch or palace, and translate it, they are strong as a palace, or in a palace, or their palace is strong f1017 their houses are well built, and continue long.

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