Psalms 73:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. Their eyes stand out with fatness - "Their countenance is changed because of fatness." - Chaldee. By fatness, or corpulency, the natural lines of the face are changed, or rather obliterated. The characteristic distinctions are gone; and we see little remaining besides the human hog.

They have more than heart could wish - I doubt this translation. Whose heart ever said, I have enough, which had not its portion with God? It would be more literal to say, "They surpass the thoughts of their heart." They have more than they expected, though not more than they wish.

Psalms 73:7

7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.