Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 73:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 73:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 73:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Asaph, God is very kind and cares for the people who have good and clean hearts. This means if you are good and try to do what is right, God will be good to you too.

Psalms 73:1: [A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart. [of: or, for] [Truly: or, Yet] [of...: Heb. clean of heart]

Contradiction with Job 21:7

This verse questions why the wicked prosper and live long, which contrasts with Psalms 73:1 that asserts God is good to the pure in heart, implying their prosperity.

Job 21:7: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

This verse observes that sometimes the righteous suffer while the wicked prosper, contradicting the idea in Psalms 73:1 that God is good to the pure in heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:14: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Jeremiah questions why the wicked prosper, which stands in contrast to the implication in Psalms 73:1 that God favors the pure in heart with goodness.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]

Contradiction with Malachi 3:15

This verse describes the wicked as being set up and prospering, conflicting with the notion of God’s goodness to the pure in heart as stated in Psalms 73:1.

Malachi 3:15: And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered. [are set up: Heb. are built]
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