Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
In Context
69The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
Psalms 119:35Make me to walk in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Acts 28:27For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:70-71
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. David here tells us how he was affected as to the proud and wicked people that were about him. 1. He did not fear their malice, nor was he by it deterred from his duty: They have forged a lie against me. Thus they aimed to take away his good name. Nay, all we have in the world, even life itself, may be brought into danger by those who make no conscience of… Read the whole commentary →