Analysis Genre In Psalm 73 an “I” tells of a severe life–crisis, or rather God–crisis, and his way out of it. The psalm is a skillfully constructed poem that, on the one hand, reflects a crisis in the style by which the Wisdom literature presents problems in poetic form, namely the shattering divergence of a “philosophy of life” that is accepted in theory from concrete life experience in social reality; and on the other hand describes, using formal elements of the thanksgiving psalm (description