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Psalm 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
4For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
5How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.
6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
8But you, LORD, are on high forever more.
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The words “understand this” point ahead to the wicked flourishing like grass, exposing how their success can obscure the judgment that follows.
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Isaiah 44:18They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.Both passages describe people who do not know or understand, though Isaiah adds the image of closed eyes and hearts.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no …Both passages link senselessness with a lack of knowledge; Jeremiah names the falsehood of lifeless images.
Proverbs 28:5Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.Both describe a failure to understand, with Proverbs naming justice and the psalm’s next line describing judgment on evildoers.
Psalm 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who …Both describe a fool’s failure concerning God: one denies God, while the other misses the meaning of his works and judgment.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.Both describe a failure to understand what concerns God; Corinthians speaks of receiving the things of God’s Spirit.
Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.Both connect foolishness with a lack of knowledge; Proverbs adds that hatred of correction stands against learning.
Psalm 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.Both pair senselessness with ignorance, though Psalm 73 makes this a confession spoken to God.
Psalm 94:8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?Both name the senseless and the foolish; Psalm 94 addresses them with an urgent demand to consider.
Proverbs 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?Both associate fools with a failure concerning knowledge; Proverbs names their hatred of it.
Psalm 49:10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.Both speak of the fool and the senseless, with their surrounding concern reaching beyond present prosperity to its end.
Proverbs 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.Both describe wisdom or understanding as beyond the fool’s grasp, though Proverbs adds his silence at the gate.
Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’Both connect folly with missing the limits of earthly prosperity, as the psalm’s next line and Jesus’ warning make clear.
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The success of evildoers can be hard to understand. The surrounding lines name its end: they will be destroyed forever, and YHWH remains on high forever.
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