Psalms 16:10
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- adipem suum concluserunt : os eorum locutum est superbiam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸ στέαρ αὐτῶν συνέκλεισαν, τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν ἐλάλησεν ὑπερηφανίαν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 17:10
- חֶלְבָּ֥מוֹ סָּגְר֑וּ פִּ֝֗ימוֹ דִּבְּר֥וּ בְגֵאֽוּת
Haydock's commentary
Their fat. That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none for me. (Challoner)
They have become fat, and have given way to greater insolence, as we see too often verified, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15., Job xv. 26., and Psalm lxxii. 7. (Chaldean) (Calmet)
Proudly. Libertines are often prompted by vanity to speak as they do against God and man. (Haydock)
If Collins, Tindal, &c., had been cast upon some desert island, they would probably never have written such irreligious works as there would have been none to applaud them. (Berthier)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVII
9. “Mine enemies have compassed about My soul;” “they have shut up their own fat” ( ver. 10 ). They have been covered with their own gross joy, after that their desire hath been satiated with wickedness. “Their mouth hath spoken pride.” And therefore their mouth spoke pride, in saying, “Hail, King of the Jews,” and other like words.
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).