And he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].
You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!
Then he abandoned God who had made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

For there are no pains in their death,
Their body is fat and pampered.

‘They are fat and they are sleek (prosperous),
They excel in acts of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, so that they [the wicked] may prosper,
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires];
The imaginations of their mind run riot [with foolishness].

Why then do you kick at (despise) My sacrifice and My offering which I commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, by fattening yourselves with the choicest part of every offering of My people Israel?’

For he has covered his face with his fat,
Adding layers of fat to his thighs [giving himself up to pleasures],

His pails are full of milk [his sides are filled out with fat],
And the marrow of his bones is moist,

At the end of ten days it seemed that they were looking better and healthier than all the young men who ate the king’s finest food.

On the earth you have lived luxuriously and abandoned yourselves to soft living and led a life of wanton pleasure [self-indulgence, self-gratification]; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.