詩人越是默想那些不敬虔人的情況，他的疑惑就越發加深。接著的經文指出他因為人們欣賞那些不敬虔的人而感到失望：「所以神的民歸到這裡，喝盡了滿杯的苦水。他們說，神怎能曉得？至高者豈有知識呢？看哪，這就是惡人；他們既是常享安逸，財寶便加增」（詩七十三10-12）。他留意到他們受到欣賞和禮貌的對待，因而說：「看我們的生活多麼美好！如果有神的話，那麼祂顯然對我們的生活不大感興趣。」

有一個基督徒向我敘述關於他的一個很成功的同事所發生的事，他說，有一天那同事對他說：「今天我在上班途中，有一個人走來問我：『你是不是一個耶和華的見證人？』他為甚麼要向我提這麼一個問題呢？我甚至不曾看見那意外發生！」那人原來根本不知道耶和華是誰，那個問題令他感到相當的困惑。

這便是詩篇七十三篇這個段落令詩人困擾的地方──他看見人們的生活完全不關心神，但他們的一切似乎都很好。我們可以從詩人的說話中感受到他的忿忿不平。你是否也會對類似的問題感到憤怒？如果是也不令人意外。不過要小心，不能讓這種憤怒成為你集中注意的焦點，因為構成人的個性有一種規律，那就是你會逐漸變得像你晝夜思想的東西。

The more the psalmist contemplates the condition of the ungodly, the more his perplexity increases. The next verses show him to be upset over the fact that people treat the ungodly with such admiration: "Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance. They say, 'How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge? This is what the wicked are like - always carefree, they increase in wealth" (Psa. 73:10-12). He observes that because they are so well-admired and well-treated such people say: "Look at how good life is to us! If there is a God, then He doesn't appear to have much interest in the way we live."

A Christian tells of a work colleague, a successful man of the world, who said to him one day: "On my way to work this morning a man stopped me and said 'Are you a Jehovah's Witness? Why would he ask me that? Why, I hadn't even seen the accident!" The man was quite unaware of who Jehovah was and the question had him completely puzzled.

This is what troubles the psalmist in this section of Psalm 73 - he sees people living with no concern for God, yet everything seems to be going so well for them. One can feel his indignation burning through the words he writes. Do you feel indignant about this, or a similar problem? It's not surprising if you do. Be careful, though, that you don't allow it to become your focus of concentration, for it is a law of the personality that you become like the thing you dwell upon.