Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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 proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Cross References

Psalm 17:10

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalm 119:35

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

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