KJV King James Version
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
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Psalm 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
WEB World English Bible
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
ASV American Standard Version
Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Surrounding context — Psalm 73
4 For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.
5 They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.
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Job 15:27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.Jeremiah 5:28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, 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.Psalm 17:10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.Psalm 73:12Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.Luke 12:16-19And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.Isaiah 3:9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.Psalm 17:14From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.1 Samuel 25:2And [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.Psalm 119:70Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
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