conclude that it had a noncultic setting and was used as a teaching tool. Those who find a cultic setting are divided as to whether it has an individual or corporate focus. Thus, the psalm may be a song of thanksgiving for recovery from sickness and highly individual. Schmidt even suggests that the psalmist may have seen a wicked man have a heart attack and die in the temple courts—and literally saw the “end” of the wicked as described in v 17 (Tim D. Schmidt, 139). Cohen, though not working within