诗人越是默想那些不敬虔人的情况，他的疑惑就越发加深。接着的经文指出他因为人们欣赏那些不敬虔的人而感到失望：「所以神的民归到这里，喝尽了满杯的苦水。他们说，神怎能晓得？至高者岂有知识呢？看哪，这就是恶人；他们既是常享安逸，财宝便加增」（诗七十三10-12）。他留意到他们受到欣赏和礼貌的对待，因而说：「看我们的生活多么美好！如果有神的话，那么祂显然对我们的生活不大感兴趣。」

有一个基督徒向我叙述关于他的一个很成功的同事所发生的事，他说，有一天那同事对他说：「今天我在上班途中，有一个人走来问我：『你是不是一个耶和华的见证人？』他为甚么要向我提这么一个问题呢？我甚至不曾看见那意外发生！」那人原来根本不知道耶和华是谁，那个问题令他感到相当的困惑。

这便是诗篇七十三篇这个段落令诗人困扰的地方──他看见人们的生活完全不关心神，但他们的一切似乎都很好。我们可以从诗人的说话中感受到他的忿忿不平。你是否也会对类似的问题感到愤怒？如果是也不令人意外。不过要小心，不能让这种愤怒成为你集中注意的焦点，因为构成人的个性有一种规律，那就是你会逐渐变得像你昼夜思想的东西。

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.