Psalms 73:7
From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
BSB
ASV
Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.
KJV
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Their eyes stand out with fatness. In cases of obesity the eyes usually appear to be enclosed in fat, but sometimes they protrude; in either case the countenance is changed, loses its human form, and is assimilated to that of fatted swine. The face is here the index of the man: the man has more than suffices him; he is glutted and surfeited with wealth, and yet is one of the wicked whom God abhorreth. They have more than heart could wish.
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Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the…
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But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
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Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
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Job 15:27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
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They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the…
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They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
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Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
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Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
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1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
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Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid.…