Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 73:6

"Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment." — Psalms 73:6 (ASV)

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - Therefore they are proud, haughty, imperious. They put on the ornaments and trappings of pride; their clothing and their adorning all are indicative of a proud heart. They seem to imagine that they are better than others, and that they are treated in this manner because they are better than others. In the original, it is a single word that is rendered “compasseth about as a chain.” The word means “to adorn with a necklace or collar;” and the idea is that pride surrounds them as with a neck-chain, or a collar for the neck. They wear it as an ornament. They make it conspicuous. It is apparent on a haughty neck—in an erect and stiff demeanour. Compare the notes at Isaiah 3:16: The daughters of Zion walk with stretched forth necks.

Violence covereth them as a garment - Injustice or cruelty seems to be their very clothing. It is manifest in their whole gait and demeanour that they are men of haughtiness and pride; that they are destitute of tenderness, sympathy, sensibility.