Psalm 119:70 Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cross References

Matthew 13:15
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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.

Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Job 15:27
Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.

Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalm 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.

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.

Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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