Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart overflow.
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.
- BSB From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
- NKJV Their eyes bulge with abundance; They have more than heart could wish.
- 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 close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
- Job 15:27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
- Jer 5:28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.
- Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
- Ps 119:70Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
- 1 Sam 25:2There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- Luke 12:16–19He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
- Isa 3:9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- 1 Sam 25:36Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
- Ezek 16:49“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ps 17:14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
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