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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:70 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:70 |
King James |
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| fat as grease--spiritually insensible (Psa 17:10; Psa 73:7; Isa 6:10). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Their heart is as fat as grease - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon them, and it seems as if it were one effect of a wicked course of life to make people prosperous. See Psa 17:10, note; Psa 73:7, note.
But I delight in thy law - Though its observance should not be attended by any such results as seem to follow wickedness, though I am poor, emaciated, pale - disappointed, slandered, persecuted - though my lot in life is among the lowly and the despised - yet I will adhere to my purpose to keep thy law. It is, and it shall be, my delight, whatever may be the effects of so observing it. See Psa 119:35. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Fat - They are stupid and insensible. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Their heart is as fat as grease - They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves without fear; they are become flesh-brutalized, and given over to vile affections, and have no kind of spiritual relish: but I delight in thy law - I have, through thy goodness, a spiritual feeling and a spiritual appetite. |
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.