Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
In Context
69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then 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 →