Job 15:27

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.

28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.

Psalms 17:10Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.

Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, 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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