Psalms Chapter 17 verse 10 Holy Bible
They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.
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They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
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They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
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They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
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They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
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They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
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Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - They are enclosed in their own fat (comp. Deuteronomy 32:15; Job 15:27; Psalm 119:70). Self-indulgence has hardened their feelings and dulled their souls. An organ enclosed in fat cannot work freely. So their feelings cannot work as nature intended through the coarseness and hardness in which they are, as it were, embedded. With their mouth they speak proudly (comp. Psalm 12:3, 4; Psalm 86:14).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) They are inclosed . . .--Literally, Their fat have they shut up. So LXX. and Vulgate, without indicating the meaning. But the "proudly" of the next clause suggests that "fat" is only a figure for the conceit of prosperity, and as that verb is active, the word mouth should be joined with it as object from the next clause, "In their conceit they shut their mouth; (when they do speak) they speak proudly.
