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Psalms 119:70

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Their heart is covered with fat, [But] I delight in Your law.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Their heart is as gross as fat; [but] I delight in thy law.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Gross, like fat, is their heart, I, in thy law, have found dear delight.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I—in Thy law I have delighted.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Their heart is as fat as grease: [but] I delight in thy law.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Their hearts are stubborn; but I keep thy law.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Their heart 3820
{3820} Prime
לֵב
leb
{labe}
A form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.
is as fat 2954
{2954} Prime
טָפַשׁ
taphash
{taw-fash'}
A primitive root; properly apparently to be thick; figuratively to be stupid.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
as grease; 2459
{2459} Prime
חֶלֶב
cheleb
{kheh'-leb}
From an unused root meaning to be fat; fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence the richest or choice part.
[but] I x589
(0589) Complement
אֲנִי
'aniy
{an-ee'}
Contracted from H0595; I.
delight 8173
{8173} Prime
שָׁעַע
sha`a`
{shaw-ah'}
A primitive root; (in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), that is, fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), that is, stare. (cry out is by confusion with H7768.).
z8773
<8773> Grammar
Stem - Pilpel (See H8842)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 19
in thy law. 8451
{8451} Prime
תּוֹרָה
towrah
{to-raw'}
From H3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 119:69-70.


Psalms 119:70

_ _ fat as grease — spiritually insensible (Psalms 17:10; Psalms 73:7; Isaiah 6:10).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 119:69-70.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 119:70

Fat — They are stupid and insensible.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 119:70

(c) Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.

(c) Their heart is indurate and hardened, puffed up with prosperity and vain estimation of themselves.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
heart is as fat:

Psalms 17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Acts 28:27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

but I:

Psalms 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Psalms 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Ps 17:10; 40:8; 73:7; 119:16, 35. Is 6:10. Ac 28:27. Ro 7:22.

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