Psalm 119:70
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New International Version (©2011)
Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Their hearts are dull and stupid, but I delight in your instructions.

English Standard Version (©2001)
their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Their heart is covered with fat, But I delight in Your law.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Their hearts are hard and insensitive, but I delight in Your instruction.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Their minds are clogged as with greasy fat, but I find joy in your instruction.

NET Bible (©2006)
Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Their heart is curdled like milk and I have kept your Law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Their hearts are cold and insensitive, [yet] I am happy with your teachings.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law.

American King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.

American Standard Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.

Darby Bible Translation
Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.

English Revised Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their heart is as gross as fat; but I delight in thy law.

World English Bible
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Young's Literal Translation
Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

119:65-72 However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified against the snares of Satan, and furnished for the service of God. We are most apt to wander from God, when we are easy in the world. We should leave our concerns to the disposal of God, seeing we know not what is good for us. Lord, thou art our bountiful Benefactor; incline our hearts to faith and obedience. The psalmist will go on in his duty with constancy and resolution. The proud are full of the world, and its wealth and pleasures; these make them senseless, secure, and stupid. God visits his people with affliction, that they may learn his statutes. Not only God's promises, but even his law, his percepts, though hard to ungodly men, are desirable, and profitable, because they lead us with safety and delight unto eternal life.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 70. - Their heart is as fat as grease; i.e. dull, gross, insensible to spiritual things (see Psalm 17:10; Isaiah 6:10). But I delight in thy Law. My heart is unlike theirs. Thy Law is a "delight" to it (comp. yore. 16, 24, 35, etc.).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

70. fat as grease—spiritually insensible (Ps 17:10; 73:7; Isa 6:10).

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…69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. 70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law. 71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes. …

Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
Acts 28:27 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.
Job 15:27 "Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
Psalm 17:10 They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
Psalm 119:16 I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Jeremiah 5:28 and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.