Job 15:26
He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
In Context
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.
Cross References
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
2 Chronicles 32:13Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?
Psalms 18:40Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35
17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →