Job 15:27
Thickness has covered his face, and lard hangs down from his sides.
Catholic Public Domain 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 has rushed against him with his throat exposed, and he has been armed with a fat neck.
28He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15The beloved grew fat, and he kicked. Having grown fat and thick and wide, he abandoned God, his Maker, and he withdrew from God, his Savior.
Psalms 17:10He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 73:7They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
Isaiah 6:10Blind the heart of this people. Make their ears heavy and close their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and then I would heal them.”
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 →