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Job 15:27
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Though his face is covered with fatand his waistline bulges with it,
Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
"Although the faces of the wicked are thick with fat, and their bellies are fat with flesh,
Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,
For he has covered his face with his fat, Adding layers of fat to his thighs [giving himself up to pleasures],
"For he has covered his face with his fat, And put fat on his waist.
Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.
Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
For he has covered his face with his fatAnd made his thighs heavy with flesh.
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
They may be rich and fat,
"He lets his face grow gross and fat, and the rest of him bulges with blubber;
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
He might be rich and fat,
Because he has deceived himself with his wealth, and he places Pleiades above Aldebaran.
"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon his loins,
because he has covered his face with fat; yea, he has put fat on his loins.
where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge.
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;
Where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lyking.
For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks;
Fatnesse, that is, pride `comyng forth of temporal aboundaunce, hilide his face, `that is, the knowyng of vndurstondyng, and outward fatnesse hangith doun of his sidis.
Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins;
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
"Though he has covered his face with his fatness, And made his waist heavy with fat,
"These wicked people are heavy and prosperous; their waists bulge with fat.
His face is fat, and his thighs are heavy with fat.
because they have covered their faces with their fat, and gathered fat upon their loins,
For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;
Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,
For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence.
"Even if they're the picture of health, trim and fit and youthful, They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack. They'll never get ahead, never amount to a hill of beans. And then death—don't think they'll escape that! They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath. There's a lesson here: Whoever invests in lies, gets lies for interest, Paid in full before the due date. Some investment! They'll be like fruit frost-killed before it ripens, like buds sheared off before they bloom. The godless are fruitless—a barren crew; a life built on bribes goes up in smoke. They have sex with sin and give birth to evil. Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit."
"For he has covered his face with his fat And made his thighs heavy with flesh.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he covereth: Job 17:10, Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:7, Psalms 78:31, Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:28
Reciprocal: Judges 3:17 - a very fat Judges 3:29 - lusty Job 21:24 - His breasts
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because he covereth his face with his fatness,.... He has no fear of God, nor shame for his sin; he blushes not to rise up against God in the manner he does, because his eyes stand out with fatness; or rather his face is covered with it, that is, he abounds in riches, he enjoys great prosperity, a large affluence of all good things; and this makes him haughty and imperious, neither to fear God, nor regard man like Jeshurun, who, when he "waxed fat, [was] grown thick, and covered with fatness, kicked" against God, and his providences, sinned and rebelled against him; "forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation", Deuteronomy 32:15; and to the same purpose is the following clause:
and maketh collops of fat in [his] flanks; a description of a very fat man, and one that pampers the flesh, and indulges himself in eating and drinking; and, figuratively, of one that abounds in the good things of this world, and which make him vain and proud, and lead him on to commit sin in a bold and daring way, promising himself impunity in it, but without any just ground for it, as the following verses show; perhaps some respect may be had to Job's children feasting with one another in their prosperity, which led on to sin, and issued in their ruin, as Eliphaz would suggest.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because he covereth his face with his fatness - That is, he not only stretches out his hand against God Job 15:25 and rushes upon him as an armed foe Job 15:26, but he gives himself up to a life of luxury, gluttony, and licentiousness; and therefore, these calamities must come upon him. This is designed to be a description of a luxurious and licentious person - a man who is an enemy of God, and who, therefore, must incur his displeasure.
And maketh collops of fat - Like an ox that is fattened. The word collop properly means “a small slice of meat, a piece of flesh” (Webster), but here it means a thick piece, or a mass. The word is used in this sense in New England. The sense is, that he becomes excessively fat and gross - as they usually do who live in sensual indulgence and who forget God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:27. Because he covereth his face — He has lived in luxury and excess; and like a man overloaded with flesh, he cannot defend himself against the strong gripe of his adversary.
The Arabic, for maketh collops of fat on his flanks, has [Arabic] He lays the Pleiades upon the Hyades, or, He places Surreea upon aiyuk, a proverbial expression for, His ambition is boundless; He aspires as high as heaven; His head touches the stars; or, is like the giants of old, who were fabled to have attempted to scale heaven by placing one high mountain upon another: -
Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam
Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum
Ter Pater extructos disjecit fulmine montes.
VIRG. Geor. i., ver. 281.
"With mountains piled on mountains, thrice they strove
To scale the steepy battlements of Jove;
And thrice his lightning and red thunder play'd,
And their demolished works in ruins laid."
DRYDEN.
To the lust of power and the schemes of ambition there are no bounds; but see the end of such persons: the haughty spirit precedes a fall; their palaces become desolate; and their heaven is reduced to a chaos.
