我们要继续探讨诗人对所谓「世上成功人士」那生动的描述：「他们的眼睛因体胖而凸出；他们所得的，过于心里所想的。他们讥笑人，凭恶意说欺压人的话；他们说话自高。他们的口亵渎上天；他们的舌毁谤全地」（诗七十三7-9）。

这些话是多么深刻地描述了那些无耻和自大地炫耀自己，并且残暴地蹂躏别人的权利的人。留意这句话：「他们的眼睛因体胖而凸出，」或者正如《国际圣经注释》（InternationalBibleCommentary）的翻译所说：「他们忙碌地筹算时，他们亮晶晶的眼睛从脂肪的折痕中凸出。既优越又自我，他们沉溺在恶意的谈论和威胁里。」今天我们也看到这种人──不敬虔、自我中心，只为了自己而活，完全漠视神的存在。

为甚么神容许他们有这种态度和行为？这真是令人感到困惑，不是吗？不过，我们必须明白，我们困惑是因为我们认识一位永恒的神，而祂的旨意和计划是远远超过我们的有限──正如今天的经文清楚告诉我们的一样。所以在面对每天的生活时，如果我们能够接受自己不会立刻明白神所做的事情和旨意，那么我们的困惑就会大大的减少。

We continue examining the psalmist's graphic description of the so-called successful "man of the world": "Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish, and the imaginations of their minds overflow with follies. They scoff and wickedly utter oppression, they speak loftily - from on high, maliciously and blasphemously. They set their mouths against and speak down from Heaven, and their tongue swaggers through the earth - invading even Heaven with blasphemy and smearing earth with slanders" (Psa.73:7-9, Amplified Bible).

How perfectly these words describe the person who brazenly flaunts his arrogance and rides roughshod over the rights of others. Note the phrase, "their eyes stand out with fatness", or, as the International Bible Commentary puts it: "Their beady eyes bulged through folds of fat as they busily schemed Superior and cynical, they engaged in malicious talk and threats." We see the same kind of people today - irreligious, self-centred men and women who live only for themselves and view God as an irrelevance.

Why does God allow them to get away with such attitudes and behaviour? Perplexing, isn't it? We must realise, however, that it is only perplexing because we are dealing with the ways of an eternal Being whose thoughts and designs are infinitely greater than our own - as the text at the top of this page clearly tells us. Think about this as you make your way through the day: half our perplexities would never arise if we were prepared not to understand immediately the things that God does or the things that God allows.