Psalms Chapter 73 verse 18 Holy Bible
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
read chapter 73 in ASV
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
read chapter 73 in BBE
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
read chapter 73 in DARBY
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
read chapter 73 in KJV
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.
read chapter 73 in WBT
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
read chapter 73 in WEB
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
read chapter 73 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Surely thou didst set them up in slippery places. The wicked have at no time any sure hold on their prosperity. They are a "set in slippery places" - places from which they may easily slip and fall. Thou castedst them down to destruction. The fall often comes, even in this life. The flourishing cities of the plain are destroyed by fire from heaven; Pharaoh's land is ruined by the plagues, and his host destroyed in the Red Sea; Sennacherib's army perishes in a night; Jezebel is devoured by dogs; Athaliah is slain with the sword; Antiochus Epiphanes perishes in a distant expedition; Herod Agrippa is eaton of worms; persecutors, like Nero, Galerius, Julian, come to untimely ends. A signal retribution visits the wicked in hundreds and thousands of instances. When it does not, the question remains - Is death the end? This point is not formally brought forward, but it underlies the whole argument; and, unless retribution after death be regarded as certain, a single exception to the general rule of retribution in this life would upset the solution which the psalmist finds satisfactory.
