Psalms 17:10 - Exposition

They are enclosed in their own fat (comp. Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Job 15:27 ; Psalms 119:70 ). Self-indulgence has hardened their feelings and dulled their souls. An organ enclosed in fat cannot work freely. So their feelings cannot work as nature intended through the coarseness and hardness in which they are, as it were, embedded. With their mouth they speak proudly (comp. Psalms 12:3 , Psalms 12:4 ; Psalms 86:14 ).