Teks -- Psalms 73:7 (NET)

73:7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

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Clarke: Psa 73:7 - Their eyes stand out with fatness

Their eyes stand out with fatness - " Their countenance is changed because of fatness."- Chaldee. By fatness, or corpulency, the natural lines of the face are changed, or rather obliterated. The characteristic distinctions are gone; and we see little remaining besides the human hog

Clarke: Psa 73:7 - They have more than heart could wish

They have more than heart could wish - I doubt this translation. Whose heart ever said, I have enough, which had not its portion with God? It would be more literal to say, "They surpass the thoughts of their heart."They have more than they expected, though not more than they wish.

Calvin: Psa 73:7 - Their eye goeth out for fatness

7.Their eye goeth out for fatness ¹⁶⁷ He now adds, that it is not wonderful to see the ungodly breaking forth with such violence and cruelty, since, by reason of fatness and pampering, their eyes are ready to start out of their heads. Some explain the words goeth out as meaning, that their eyes being covered and hidden with fat, were, so to speak, lost, and could not be perceived in their sockets. But as fat causes the eyes to project from the head, I prefer retaining the proper meaning of the words. Let it, however, be observed, that David is not to be understood as speaking of the bodily countenance, but as expressing metaphorically the pride with which the ungodly are inflated on account of the abundance which they possess. They so glut and intoxicate themselves with their prosperity, that afterwards they are ready to burst with pride. The last clause of the verse is also explained in two ways. Some think that by the verb עבר , abar, which we have translated passed beyond, is denoted unbridled presumption; ¹⁶⁸ for the ungodly are not contented to keep themselves within ordinary bounds, but in their wild and extravagant projects mount above the clouds. We know, in fact, that they often deliberate with themselves how they may take possession of the whole world; yea, they would wish God to create new worlds for them. In short, being altogether insatiable, they pass beyond heaven and earth in their wild and unbounded desires. It would certainly not be inappropriate to explain the verb as meaning, that their foolish thoughts can be regulated by no law, nor kept within any bounds. But there is another exposition which is also very suitable, namely, that the prosperity and success which they meet with exceed all the flattering prospects which they had pictured in their imaginations. We certainly see some of them who obtain more than ever they had desired, as if, whilst they were asleep, Fortune laid nets and fished for them, ¹⁶⁹ — the device under which king Demetrius was in old time wittily painted, who had taken so many cities, although otherwise he was neither skillful nor vigilant, nor of great foresight. If we are inclined to take this view of the words, this clause will be added by way of exposition, to teach us what is meant by that fatness, spoken of before — that it means that God heaps upon the wicked, and fills them with, an abundance of all good things, beyond what they had ever either desired or thought of.

TSK: Psa 73:7 - eyes // have

eyes : Psa 17:10, Psa 119:70; Job 15:27; Isa 3:9; Jer 5:28; Eze 16:49

have : etc. Heb. pass the thoughts of the heart, Psa 73:12, Psa 17:14; 1Sa 25:2, 1Sa 25:36; Luk 12:16-19

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Poole: Psa 73:7 - Their eyes stand out with fatness

Their eyes stand out with fatness as they do in some fat persons, though not in others. The meaning is, they live in great plenty and prosperity, as the next clause explains it.

Haydock: Psa 73:7 - Name

Name. That temple, which was the only one consecrated to thee. (Haydock) ---

All persecutors seek to destroy the places of true worship. (Worthington)

Gill: Psa 73:7 - they have more than heart could wish // exceed the imaginations of the heart

Or their face, the eyes being put for the whole face; so the Targum,

"their face is changed, because of fatness;''

see Job 15:27, otherwise through fatness the eyes are almost enclosed: or "it goes forth out of the fatness of their eyes" ⁱ; that is, either "pride", which shows itself in haughty looks and scornful airs, through the abundance possessed; or "violence", seen in the fierceness of the eyes, and fury of the countenance; or "their eyes go out through fatness" ^k that is, through the plenty they enjoy, their eyes go out in lust after lawful objects:

they have more than heart could wish; that they themselves could have wished for heretofore, though not now; for what is it that a worldly covetous heart cannot and does not wish for? if it had all the world, it would not satisfy it: or "the imaginations of the heart go on" ^l; that is, after more, not being content with such things as they have; or "they", i.e. their pride and violence,

exceed the imaginations of the heart ^m; they are more than can be conceived of, they overpass the deeds of the wicked, Jer 5:28 or "they transgress by the imaginations of the heart" ⁿ; which are evil, and that continually.