Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 5:28

28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Or, so fat that they shine; by reason of their wealth and riches they pamper themselves till their eyes stand out with fatness, Psal. 73.7. their wrinkles are filled up with fat, which makes their faces shine.

Either, they go beyond the very Heathens themselves in wickedness, Ezek. 5.6, 7. or rather, they escape the hardships and sufferings that others undergo, Psal. 73.5, 6, 7, 8. they 'scape better than others; or, they slightly pass over judgments threatned.

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, Zech. 7.10. expresly forbidden, Exod. 22.22.

Things go well with them, they live happily according to their desire, prosperum scelus, Iob 21.7. &c. Or, that they might prosper, viz. that God might bless them.

Marginal references: Deut. 32.15.; Job 12.6. Psal. 73.12. chap. 12.1.