Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

Amplified


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

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 proud devised falsehood against me: I will watch thy charges with all the heart. 70 Their heart was fat as fatness; I delighted in thy law. 71 Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.


Cross References

Psalm 17:10

They shut up their fat: their mouth spake in pride.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Psalm 119:16

In thy laws I will delight: I will not forget thy word.

Psalm 40:8

To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 73:7

Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart

Psalm 119:35

Cause me to tread in the beaten path of thy commands, for I delighted in it

Romans 7:22

For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within:

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