Psalms 119:70
Their heart is gross like fat; but I delight in Thy law.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
In Context
69The proud have forged a lie against me; but I with my whole heart will keep Thy precepts.
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, in order that I might learn Thy statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
Psalms 119:35Make me to tread in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
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 →