Psalm 17:10

10 Han cerrado su insensible corazón; hablan arrogantemente con su boca.

Psalm 17:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat
Or "their fat has enclosed them"; either their eyes, that they can hardly see out of them, or their hearts, so that they are stupid and senseless, and devoid of the fear of God; the phrase is expressive of the multitude of their wealth and increase of power, by which they were swelled with pride and vanity, and neither feared God nor regarded man; so the Targum paraphrases it,

``their riches are multiplied, their fat covers them;''

see ( Deuteronomy 32:15 ) ( Psalms 73:8 Psalms 73:9 ) ; some read it, "their fat shuts their mouths", so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or "with their fat they shut them" ^F8; but the accent "athnach" will not admit of this reading; the last word belongs to the next clause;

with their mouth they speak proudly;
against God and his people, belching out blasphemies against the one, and severe menaces and threatenings against the other.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 So De Dieu.

Psalm 17:10 In-Context

8 Guárdame como a la niña de tus ojos; escóndeme a la sombra de tus alas

9 de los impíos que me despojan, de mis enemigos mortales que me rodean.

10 Han cerrado su insensible corazón; hablan arrogantemente con su boca.

11 Ahora nos han cercado en nuestros pasos; fijan sus ojos para echarnos por tierra,

12 como león que ansía despedazar, como leoncillo que acecha en los escondrijos.