From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Parallel translations
- WEB Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
- KJV Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
- ESV Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
- NKJV Their eyes bulge with abundance; They have more than heart could wish.
- NASB Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart overflow.
- NLT These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for!
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Quick answer
Their prosperity is so excessive that their eyes bulge with fat and their imaginations run beyond all bounds of conceit.
Overview
The vivid imagery depicts the wicked as bloated with self-indulgence and runaway vanity. Abundance has corrupted rather than humbled them. Such inflated self-conceit blinds them to God and to their coming downfall, exposing the spiritual peril of unchecked prosperity.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
- Job 15:27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
- Jer 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 rights of the needy.
- Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
- Ps 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
- 1 Sam 25:2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- Luke 12:16–19Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
- Isa 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- 1 Sam 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.
- Ezek 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
- Ps 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
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