Psalms 119:70
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
In Context
69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would 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 →