“Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.”
The statement that their eyes bulge with fat indicates the gross materiality of their existence and their preoccupation with physical indulgence. The reference to hearts overflowing with folly articulates the internal emptiness despite external prosperity. This verse emphasizes the spiritual poverty underlying their material abundance.
Church Fathers on Psalms 73:7
1. This Psalm has an inscription, that is, a title, “There have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm of Asaph himself.” So many Psalms we have on the titles whereof is written the name David, nowhere there is added, “son of Jesse,” except in this alone. Which we must believe has not been done to no purpose, nor capriciously. For everywhere God does make intimations to us, and to the understanding thereof does invite the godly study of love. What is, “there…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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