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Salmos 119:70
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Su corazón está cubierto de grasa, pero yo me deleito en tu ley.
Engrasse el corazn de ellos como sebo; Mas yo en tu ley me he deleitado.
Se engros el corazn de ellos como sebo; mas yo en tu ley me he deleitado.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heart is as fat: Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:7, Isaiah 6:10, Acts 28:27
but I: Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:35, Psalms 40:8, Romans 7:22
Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:3 - the fat Deuteronomy 31:20 - waxen fat Deuteronomy 32:15 - waxen fat Psalms 112:1 - delighteth Isaiah 5:17 - the waste Jeremiah 5:28 - waxen Jeremiah 6:10 - delight Micah 2:7 - do not Matthew 13:15 - heart
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Their heart is as fat as grease,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this world; had more than heart could wish, and so became proud and haughty: or their hearts were gross, sottish, senseless, and stupid, as persons fat at heart are; or as creatures over fat, which have little or no feeling: so these had no knowledge of the law of God, no sense of their duty, no remorse of conscience for sin; their hearts were hardened, and they past feeling, and given up to a reprobate mind; see Isaiah 6:9; The Targum is,
"the imagination of their heart is become gross as fat:''
the Septuagint is, "curdled like milk"; that is, hardened, as Suidas s interprets it;
[but] I delight in thy law; after the inward man; as the apostle did, Romans 7:22; as fulfilled in Christ; as in his hands, as King and Lawgiver; as written upon his own heart; and so yielding a ready and cheerful obedience to it; he delighted in reading the law, in meditating on it, and in observing it.
s In voce ετυρωθη.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Their heart is as fat as grease - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon them, and it seems as if it were one effect of a wicked course of life to make people prosperous. See Psalms 17:10, note; Psalms 73:7, note.
But I delight in thy law - Though its observance should not be attended by any such results as seem to follow wickedness, though I am poor, emaciated, pale - disappointed, slandered, persecuted - though my lot in life is among the lowly and the despised - yet I will adhere to my purpose to keep thy law. It is, and it shall be, my delight, whatever may be the effects of so observing it. See Psalms 119:35.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:70. Their heart is as fat as grease — They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves without fear; they are become flesh-brutalized, and given over to vile affections, and have no kind of spiritual relish: but I delight in thy law - I have, through thy goodness, a spiritual feeling and a spiritual appetite.
