They are waxen fat, they shine; or, so fat that they shine; by reason.of their wealth and riches they pamper themselves till their eyes stand out with fatness, Psalms 73:7; their wrinkles are filled up with fat, which makes their faces shine. They overpass the deeds of the wicked; either, they go beyond the very heathen themselves in wickedness, Ezekiel 5:6,7; or rather, they escape the hardships and sufferings that others undergo, Psalms 73:5-8, they escape better than others; or they slightly pass over judgments threatened. They judge not the cause of the fatherless; such whom even the law of nature commits to their patronage, they either disregard them, or wrong and injure them, either by refusing them a fair hearing, Isaiah 1:23, or giving wrong sentence against them in courts of judicature, Malachi 7:10, expressly forbidden, Exodus 22:22. Yet they prosper; things go well with them, they live happily, according to their desire, prosperum scelus, Job 21:7, &c.; or, that they might prosper, viz. that God might bless them.
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Jeremiah 5:28
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.