Psalms 119:70
Their heart has been thick as fat, || I have delighted in Your law.
Literal Standard Version
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 keep Your precepts with the whole heart.
71[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted, || That I might learn Your statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10They have closed up their fat, || Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Psalms 73:7Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Psalms 119:35Cause me to tread in the path of Your commands, || For I have delighted in it.
Acts 28:27for the heart of this people was made obtuse, and with the ears they barely heard, and they closed their eyes, lest they may see with the eyes, and may understand with the heart, and should turn, and I may 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 →