Prosperity has resulted in obtuse self-complacency and contemptuous arrogance. Cp. Psalms 73:7-8; Job 15:27. The right rendering of 10 ais however probably (cp. R.V. marg.) Their heart (lit. midriff) have they shut up. They have closed it against every influence for good and all sympathy. Cp. 1 John 3:17. See for this explanation Prof. Robertson Smith's Religion of the Semites, p. 360.

they speak proudly Cp. Psalms 12:3 ff.; Psalms 10:2; Psalms 31:18; Psalms 73:6.

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