Job 15:27
For he has covered his face with his fat, || And makes vigor over [his] confidence.
Literal Standard 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 to Him with a neck, || With thick bosses of his shields.
28And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, || That have been ready to become heaps.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15And Yeshurun waxes fat, and kicks: You have been fat, you have been thick, || You have been covered. And he leaves God who made him, || And dishonors the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They have closed up their fat, || Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Psalms 73:7Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Isaiah 6:10Declare the heart of this people fat, || And declare its ears heavy, || And declare its eyes dazzled, || Lest it see with its eyes, || And hear with its ears, and consider with its heart, || And it has turned back, and has health.”
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 →