Job 15:27
Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
In Context
26He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
28He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
Psalms 17:10they have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
Isaiah 6:10Blind the heart of this people, 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 be converted and I 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 →