Psalms 119:70

As fat as grease. — For this emblem of pride and insensibility, see Psalms 17:10; Psalms 73:7; Isaiah 6:10.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(c) Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law. (c) Their heart is indurate and hardened, puffed up with prosperity and vain estima...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginnin...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. Their heart is as fat as grease - They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease— Or, Is gross, as with fat. Or, Gross as fat. Houb. By this fatness of the heart, stupidity, dullness, and eart...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. Their heart is as fat as grease - as obese as fat ( Deuteronomy 32:15 ): a mind re...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the s...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fat as grease ] dull, gross: cp. Job 15:26-27 ; Isaiah 6:10 .
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of th...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Profiting from Affliction Psalms 119:65-80 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faith...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term,...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease ,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law. Ver. 70. Their heart is as fat as grease ] Gross as grease; curdled as milk or cheese...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The proud have forged a lie against me A slander, charging me with hypocrisy toward God, and other sins. But I will keep thy precepts My practice...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease; the sense is either, 1. They are stupid, and insensible, and past feeling, not affected either with the terrors...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:64-67 . The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto th...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at...
The Biblical Illustrator

The proud have forged a lie against me. The slanderer, the corrupt, the pious I. The tongue of the slanderer. Slander is-- 1. Malicious. Its...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Teth. The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Their heart is as fat as grease, altogether without sensitiveness; it is impossible to make an impression upon the majority of the godless, to convin...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 28:27 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 73:7 ; Psalms 119:16 ; Psalms 119:35 ; Psalms 40:8 ; Romans 7:22
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fat — They are stupid and insensible.

⁷⁰ Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:70

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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