John Gill Commentary Psalms 73:4

"For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm." — Psalms 73:4 (ASV)

For there are no bands in their death Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at ease and quiet, without any bitterness of soul; see (Job 21:13Job 21:23Job 21:25) , or "there are no bands until their death"^F6;

they have no straits nor difficulties all their life long, no distempers nor diseases which may be called "bonds", (Luke 13:12Luke 13:13Luke 13:16) , till they come to die: the Vulgate Latin version is, "there is no respect to their death"; they take no notice of it, they have no care or concern about it; or, as the Targum, ``they are not terrified nor troubled because of the day of their death;'' they put it away far from them, and think nothing about it:

but their strength is firm; they are hale and robust, healthful and sound, to the day of their death; their strength is not weakened in the way by diseases and distempers.

Some take the word rendered "strength" to signify a porch or palace, and translate it, they are strong as a palace, or in a palace, or their palace is strong^F7 their houses are well built, and continue long.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: (Mtwml) "usque ad mortem eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis.
• F7: (Mlwa) "palatium vel sicut palatium"; so some in Piscator; "porticus", Schmidt; so R. Jonah, Arama, and Jerom.