Psalm 17:10

10 Ihr fettes Herz verschließen sie, mit ihrem Munde reden sie stolz.

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 Bewahre mich wie den Augapfel im Auge; birg mich in dem Schatten deiner Flügel

9 vor den Gesetzlosen, die mich zerstören, meinen Todfeinden, die mich umzingeln.

10 Ihr fettes Herz verschließen sie, mit ihrem Munde reden sie stolz.

11 In allen unseren Schritten haben sie uns jetzt umringt; sie richten ihre Augen, uns zu Boden zu strecken.

12 Er ist gleich einem Löwen, der nach Raub schmachtet, und wie ein junger Löwe, sitzend im Versteck.