They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalm 17:10 stands in the first book of the Psalms and forms part of a psalm of David. That setting opens a view into the shepherd-warrior-poet's life in tending his flock, fleeing from Saul whose life he spared, being surrounded by relentless and treacherous foes, and being wonderfully delivered from his enemies. It breathes distrust of his own strength and exaltation of God's power, with confidence in God's might and goodness and assurance of the final overthrow of all wickedness and the triumph of all good. The verse pictures proud and self-satisfied people as shut in by their own fatness and speaking in boastful tones. In it may also be read something of the experience of Christ as the greater Son of the great David.
Psalm 17:10 stands in the first book of the Psalms and forms part of a psalm of David. That setting opens a view into the shepherd-warrior-poet's life in tending his flock, fleeing from Saul whose life he spared, being surrounded by relentless and treacherous foes, and being wonderfully delivered from his enemies. It breathes distrust of his own strength and exaltation of God's power, with confidence in God's might and goodness and assurance of the final overthrow of all wickedness and the triumph of all good. The verse pictures proud and self-satisfied people as shut in by their own fatness and speaking in boastful tones. In it may also be read something of the experience of Christ as the greater Son of the great David.