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They are waxen fat, they shine; or, so fat that they shine; by reason.of their wealth and riches they pamper themselves till their eyes stand out with fatness, Psa_73:7; their wrinkles are filled up with fat, which makes their faces shine.
They overpass the deeds of the wicked; either, they go beyond the very heathen themselves in wickedness, Eze_5:6,7; or rather, they escape the hardships and sufferings that others undergo, Psa_73:5-8, they escape better than others; or they slightly pass over judgments threatened.
They judge not the cause of the fatherless; such whom even the law of nature commits to their patronage, they either disregard them, or wrong and injure them, either by refusing them a fair hearing, Isa_1:23, or giving wrong sentence against them in courts of judicature, Zec_7:10, expressly forbidden, Exo_22:22.
Yet they prosper; things go well with them, they live happily, according to their desire, prosperum scelus, Job_21:7, &c.; or, that they might prosper, viz. that God might bless them.