Job 15:27

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

In Context

26He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,

28And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.

Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and be healed.

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 →

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