John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 17:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They are enclosed in their own fat, etc.] 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 <053215>Deuteronomy 32:15 <197308>Psalm 73:8,9); some read it, “their fat shuts their mouths”, so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or “with their fat they shut them” f255; 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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