Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 73:7

"Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish." — Psalms 73:7 (ASV)

Stand out with fatness. —Literally, go out from fat. If referring to the appearance, this is exactly the opposite to what we should expect. Sunken in fat would express the idea of gross sensuality.

The eyes and heart are evidently used as in Jeremiah 22:17, the eyes as giving the outward index of what the heart wishes.

If we take the eyes here to mean not the organs of sight, but, by metonymy, the looks (compare to Song of Solomon 4:9), “they look out of fatness,” the expression is intelligible enough.

Or we might perhaps take the eyes to stand for the countenance. (See Gesenius, sub voc.) , their countenance stands out because of fatness.

Or, by taking this clause in direct parallelism with the following, we might understand that restless looking about for fresh excitement which comes of satiety.

The following lines illustrate the whole verse:

“Triumphant plenty, with a cheerful grace,
Basks in their eyes, and sparkles in their face;
How sleek they look, how goodly is their mien,
When big they strut behind a double chin.”

—DRYDEN.

They have more. —See margin. Or the verb may be intransitive: the imaginations of their hearts overflow.