Job 15:27
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
World English Bible Classic
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 at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, 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 →