Parallel Verses

Amplified


Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.

New American Standard Bible

Their heart is covered with fat,
But I delight in Your law.

King James Version

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

Holman 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.

A Conservative Version

Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law.

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Their heart was fat as fatness; I delighted in thy law.

King James 2000

Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Their heart [is] insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.

Modern King James verseion

Their heart is without feeling, like fat; but I delight in Your Law.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Their heart is as fat as brawn, but my delight hath been in thy law.

NET Bible

Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

New Heart English Bible

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your Law.

The Emphasized Bible

Gross, like fat, is their heart, I, in thy law, have found dear delight.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Teth

69
The arrogant have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts with all my heart.
70 
Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.
71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.


Cross References

Psalm 17:10


They have closed their unfeeling heart [to kindness and compassion];
With their mouths they speak proudly and make presumptuous claims.

Isaiah 6:10


“Make the heart of this people insensitive,
Their ears dull,
And their eyes dim,
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts,
And return and be healed.”

Acts 28:27


For the heart (the understanding, the soul) of this people has become dull (calloused),
And with their ears they scarcely hear,
And they have shut their eyes [to the truth];
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart and return [to Me],
And I would heal them.”’

Psalm 119:16


I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 40:8


“I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 73:7


Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires];
The imaginations of their mind run riot [with foolishness].

Psalm 119:35


Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.

Romans 7:22

For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature],

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