Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
The wicked are portrayed as proud and flourishing, with eyes standing out with fatness from excess and possessions beyond more than heart could wish. Such outward abundance can accompany wrongdoing, showing that the prosperous condition of the wicked is apparent prosperity.
That abundance is only outward appearance and is no sign of divine approval, for material success does not prove God favors a person's course. He despises their way and rejects their course, and His blessing does not attend them or accompany them. The seeming success conceals great danger. Forgetting God even for an hour or a moment puts a person on a dangerous and uncertain path, where the peril may go unseen until evil habit binds as firmly as an iron band. That prosperity tempted David to doubt God, and the peril in such temptation comes from the person's own separation from God rather than from God withdrawing Himself from the soul.
The wicked are portrayed as proud and flourishing, with eyes standing out with fatness from excess and possessions beyond more than heart could wish. Such outward abundance can accompany wrongdoing, showing that the prosperous condition of the wicked is apparent prosperity.
That abundance is only outward appearance and is no sign of divine approval, for material success does not prove God favors a person's course. He despises their way and rejects their course, and His blessing does not attend them or accompany them. The seeming success conceals great danger. Forgetting God even for an hour or a moment puts a person on a dangerous and uncertain path, where the peril may go unseen until evil habit binds as firmly as an iron band. That prosperity tempted David to doubt God, and the peril in such temptation comes from the person's own separation from God rather than from God withdrawing Himself from the soul.