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EXPOSITION.
"_They are inclosed in their own fat_." Luxury and
gluttony beget vain-glorious fatness of heart, which shuts up its
gates against all compassionate emotions and reasonable
judgments. The old proverb says that full bellies make empty
skulls, and it is yet more true that they frequently make empty
hearts. The rankest weeds grow out of the fattest soil. Riches
and self-indulgence are the fuel upon which some sins feed their
flames. Pride and fulness of bread were Sodom's twin sins. (#Eze
16:49|) Fed hawks forget their masters; and the moon at its
fullest is furthest from the sun. Eglon was a notable instance
that a well-fed corporation is no security to life, when a sharp
message comes from God, addressed to the inward vitals of the
body. "_With their mouth they speak proudly_." He who adores
himself will have no heart to adore the Lord. Full of selfish
pleasure within his heart, the wicked man fills his mouth with
boastful and arrogant expressions. Prosperity and vanity often
lodge together. Woe to the fed ox when it bellows at its owner,
the poleaxe is not far off.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verse 10.--"_They are inclosed in their own fat_," or
_their fat has inclosed them_; either their eyes, that they can
hardly see out of them, or their hearts, so that they are stupid
and senseless, and devoid of the fear of God; the phrase is
expressive of the multitude of their wealth, and increase of
power, by which they were swelled with pride and vanity, and
neither feared God nor regarded man; so the Targum paraphrases
it, "their riches are multiplied, their fat covers them."--^John
Gill.
Verse 10.--"_They are inclosed in their own fat_." Their
worldly prosperity puffeth them up, and makes them insensible and
obdurate against all reason and just fear; and the Scripture doth
use this term of a fattened heart in this sense, because that the
fat of man hath no feeling in it, and those that are very fat are
less subject to the passion of fear.--^John Diodati.
Verse 10.--"_They are inclosed in their own fat_." To say
a man is fat, often means he is very proud. Of one who speaks
pompously it is said, "What can we do? _tassi kullap inal_," that
is, "from the fat of his flesh he declares himself." "Oh, the fat
of his mouth! how largely he talks!" "Take care, fellow! or I
will restrain the fat of thy mouth."--^J. Roberts, in "Oriental
Illustrations:" 1844.