Job 15 · Verse 27

Job 15:27

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Job 15:27, King James Version

Job 15:27 in other translations

BSBThough his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
WEBbecause he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
ASVBecause he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
YLTFor he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.
DARBYFor he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks.
BBEBecause his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
WebsterBecause he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

What does Job 15:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. The well-nourished body of the rebel is the sign of his prosperity. collops--masses of fat. He pampers and fattens himself with sensual indulgences; hence his rebellion against God (De 32:15; 1Sa 2:29).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…

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Job 15:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
כִסָּ֣הkhi.Sahhe has coveredH3680
פָנָ֣יוfa.Navface hisH6440
בְּחֶלְבּ֑וֹbe.chel.Bowith fat hisH2459
וַיַּ֖עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he has madeH6213
פִּימָ֣הpi.MahfatH6371
עֲלֵי\־'a.lei-onH5921
כָֽסֶל\׃Kha.selloinsH3689

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 15:27

  • Psalms 17:10

    They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

  • Psalms 73:7

    Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

  • Jeremiah 5:28

    They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

  • Isaiah 6:10

    Make the heart of this people fat, 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 convert, and be healed.

  • Deuteronomy 32:15

    But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

  • Job 17:10

    But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

  • Psalms 78:31

    The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he covereth.
17:10; De 32:15; Ps 17:10; 73:7; 78:31; Isa 6:10; Jer 5:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 15:26

    He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

  • Job 15:27

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

  • Job 15:28

    And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

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Job 15:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque cubrió su rostro con su gordura, é hizo pliegues sobre los ijares;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car il a couvert sa face de sa graisse, et a rendu gras ses flancs.
German
Elberfelder 1871		weil er sein Angesicht bedeckt hat mit seinem Fette und Schmer angesetzt an den Lenden;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Operuit faciem ejus crassitudo, et de lateribus ejus arvina dependet.