Psalm 17:10

10 Cerrados están con su grosura; con su boca hablan soberbiamente

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 lo negro de la niña del ojo, escóndeme con la sombra de tus alas

9 De delante de los malos que me oprimieron, de mis enemigos que me cercan por la vida

10 Cerrados están con su grosura; con su boca hablan soberbiamente

11 Nuestros pasos nos han cercado ahora; puestos tienen sus ojos para echarnos por tierra

12 Se parecen al león que desea hacer presa, y al leoncillo que está escondido